Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages 111-115 , Summer 2007

Gore-Tex Chordoplasty in Degenerative Mitral Valve Repair

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PII: S1043-0679(07)00083-4

doi: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2007.05.003

Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages 111-115 , Summer 2007

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