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  1. Prince of Wales Hospital Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China

    Calvin S. H. Ng & Anthony P. C. Yim

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  1. Department of Pediatric Surgery Sophia Children’s Hospital, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, 3000 CB, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

    Klaas M. A. Bax MD, PhD, FRCS

  2. Division of Pediatric Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Alabama, 1600 7th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, 35233, USA

    Keith E. Georgeson MD

  3. The Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children, 1601 E 19th Ave, Suite 5500, Denver, Colorado, 80218, USA

    Steven S. Rothenberg MD

  4. Hôpital Lenval Department of Pediatric Surgery, Fondation Lenval, 57, Avenue de la Californie, 06200, Nice, France

    Jean-Stéphane Valla MD, PhD

  5. Department of Surgery, Chinese University of Hong Kong Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, Hong Kong

    C K Yeung MD, PhD

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Ng, C.S.H., Yim, A.P.C. (2008). Video-assisted Thoracic Surgery for Thymectomy. In: Bax, K.M.A., Georgeson, K.E., Rothenberg, S.S., Valla, JS., Yeung, C.K. (eds) Endoscopic Surgery in Infants and Children. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49910-7_25

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