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Ann Thorac Surg 2007;83:396
© 2007 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Original Articles: General Thoracic

Invited commentary

Michael Lanuti, MD

55 Fruit St, Blake 1570, Boston, MA 02114

(Email: mlanuti@partners.org).

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The current study by Gorlitzer and colleagues [1] describes an alternative approach to the treatment of descending necrotizing mediastinitis in 5 patients at a single institution. Although a variety of surgical approaches (ie, transcervical, subxiphoid, transthoracic, and transternal) have been adopted and published, no single approach has been widely accepted as the optimal form . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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