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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2003;23:841
© 2003 Elsevier Science NL

Images in cardio-thoracic surgery

Nail gun penetrating cardiac injury

First Department of Surgery, Gifu University School of Medicine, 40 Tsukasa, Gifu 500-8705, Japan

Received 19 November 2002; received in revised form 20 January 2003; accepted 23 January 2003.

^* Corresponding author. Tel.: +81-58-267-2617; fax: +81-58-267-2955
e-mail: h-takagi@cc.gifu-u.ac.jp

Key Words: Nail gun • Cardiac injury • Nail gun • Cardiac injury

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