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- [3] Catheter Ablation versus Thoracoscopic Surgical Ablation in Long Standing Persistent Atrial Fibrillation (CASA-AF): study protocol for a randomised controlled trialTrials, 19Habib Rehman Khan论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Ines Kralj-Hans论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Shouvik Haldar论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Toufan Bahrami论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Jonathan Clague论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Anthony De Souza论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Darrel Francis论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Wajid Hussain论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Julian Jarman论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,David Gareth Jones论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Neeraj Mediratta论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Raad Mohiaddin论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Tushar Salukhe论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Simon Jones论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Joanne Lord论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Caroline Murphy论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Joanna Kelly论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Vias Markides论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Dhiraj Gupta论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,Tom Wong论文数: 0 引用数: 0 h-index: 0机构: Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust,
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