Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 37, Issue 7 , Pages 970-973 , July 2002

Successful thoracoscopic lung biopsy in children utilizing preoperative CT-guided localization

Presented at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Section on Surgery of the American Academy of Pediatrics, San Francisco, California, October 19-21, 2001.

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☆ Address reprint requests to David A. Partrick, MD, The Children's Hospital, Department of Pediatric Surgery, 1950 Ogden St, B-323, Denver, CO 80218.

PII: S0022-3468(02)00005-2

doi: 10.1053/jpsu.2002.33820

Journal of Pediatric Surgery
Volume 37, Issue 7 , Pages 970-973 , July 2002

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