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Intracardiac Sewing Needle in a Child

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  1. Jieru Cai and Huan Liu contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Nephrology, Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, 200032, China

    Jieru Cai & Xiaoqiang Ding

  2. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

    Huan Liu & Lai Wei

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This study was funded by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81600517).

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Cai, J., Liu, H., Wei, L. et al. Intracardiac Sewing Needle in a Child. Indian J Pediatr 86, 99–100 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12098-018-2719-8

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