Our destination and our destiny: Real endoscopic cardiac surgery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 753-754

  Chitwood Jr , W Randolph ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG ELUTING STENT; EDITORIAL; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART SURGERY; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SCIENCE; STERNOTOMY; SURGEON; TECHNOLOGY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ENDOSCOPY; HUMANS; ROBOTICS;

EID: 33748880644     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.06.009     Document Type: Editorial

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