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Ann Thorac Surg 2002;73:62-63
© 2002 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Invited commentary

^a Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The University of Tokushima, School of Medicine, 2 Kuramoto, Tokushima 770–8503, Japan

e-mail: kitagawa@clin.med.tokushima-u.ac.jp

The management of patients with multiple apical ventricular septal defects remains controversial. It is difficult for most cardiac surgeons to divide coarse right ventricular apical trabeculations or to facilitate accurate identification of the true margins of a solitary defect on the left ventricular side using an atrial approach. The most interesting description of the article by Tsang and associates is the presentation of how to accurately expose a solitary defect through an apical right ventriculotomy in an autopsied specimen. However, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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