Published in Arq Bras Cardiol on May 30, 2003
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Fifty years of open heart surgery at the Mayo Clinic. Mayo Clin Proc (2005) 1.52
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Replacement of the infected composite aortic root prosthesis. Ann Thorac Surg (2011) 1.39
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