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Dylewski, M.R., Lazzaro, R.S. Robotics — The answer to the Achilles’ heel of VATS pulmonary resection. Chin. J. Cancer Res. 24, 259–260 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11670-012-0261-1
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