Medical thoracoscopy: Techniques for thoracic sympathectomy

Interventional Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 483-502

  Noppen, Marc ^a  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

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