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The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol 58, 233-235, Copyright © 1994 by The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Pericardiectomy using an ultrasonic dissector

M Ninan and T Treasure
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. George's Hospital and Medical School, London, United Kingdom.

We report the case of a 73-year-old man on whom we performed pericardiectomy for calcified constrictive pericarditis using an ultrasonic dissector. It seems unlikely that others have not used the technique, but it does not feature in the standard operative descriptions.

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