1. Is it really dumb to leave a stump?
Konrad Hoetzenecker, MD, PhD, Walter Klepetko, MD 
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 
Volume 156, Issue 1, Pages (July 2018)
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2. Figure 1
Two examples of recipient bronchial stumps in lobar transplantation (A). Anatomic middle lobectomy for size reduction in cadaveric lung recipients (B). RLL, Right lower lobe; RML, right middle lobe; RUL, right upper lobe.
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3. Konrad Hoetzenecker, MD, PhD, and Walter Klepetko, MD
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  , DOI: ( /j.jtcvs )
Copyright © 2017 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions