Surgery
Volume 145, Issue 5 , Pages 500-507 , May 2009

Multiple treatment algorithms for successful outcomes in venous thoracic outlet syndrome

,Accepted 24 September 2008.

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 Presented at the Eastern Vascular Society Meeting, September 27, 2007, Baltimore, Maryland.

PII: S0039-6060(09)00029-4

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2008.09.017

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