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CABG surgery versus drug-eluting stent implantation in multivessel disease: a cardiovascular surgeon's perspective

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The synopsis was written by Alexandra King, Associate Editor, Nature Clinical Practice.

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  1. Department of Cardiac Surgery, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK david.taggart@orh.nhs.uk

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  1. DP Taggart is Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Oxford and a Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.,

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Taggart, D. CABG surgery versus drug-eluting stent implantation in multivessel disease: a cardiovascular surgeon's perspective. Nat Rev Cardiol 5, 450–451 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpcardio1274

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