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vol. 23
Letter to the Editor
Salvage of an infected saphenofemoral arteriovenous graft complicated by thrombosis using a staged hybrid approach
Department of Vascular Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras Medical School, Patras, Greece
Department of Surgery, Medical School, University of Patras, Greece
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Ippokrateio General Hospital of Athens, Greece
Department of Interventional Radiology, General University Hospital of Patras, Greece
Second Department of Surgery, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westpfalz Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Kardiochirurgia i Torakochirurgia Polska 2026; 23 (2): 187-191
Data publikacji online: 2026/07/21
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