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Considerations in the Choice of Arterial Grafts

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Arterial Grafting for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery

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    Guo-Wei He MD, PhD, DSc (Clinical Professor of Surgery, Director, Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief, Research Professor of Surgery and Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery) (Clinical Professor of Surgery, Director, Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief, Research Professor of Surgery and Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery)

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He, G.W. (2006). Considerations in the Choice of Arterial Grafts. In: He, GW. (eds) Arterial Grafting for Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-30084-8_9

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