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The 10th Annual C. Walton Lillehei Lecture: Good Things in Small Packages: Meeting Challenges in the Low-volume Program*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 November 2009

Scott M. Bradley*
Affiliation:
10th Annual C. Walton Lillehei Lecture, Cardiology 2009, 12th Annual Update on Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease, Nassau, the Bahamas, February, 2009
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Correspondence to: Scott M. Bradley, MD, Head, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, CSB 424, 96 Jonathan Lucas St. Charleston, South Carolina 29425. Tel: (843) 792-3361; Fax: (843) 792-9783; E-mail: [email protected]

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This article is, in large part, a transcript of the 10th Annual C. Walton Lillehei Lecture, delivered at Cardiology 2009, 12th Annual Update on Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Disease, Nassau, the Bahamas, February, 2009.

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