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  1. Department of Vascular Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, Athens, Greece

    George Sfyroeras

  2. Vascular Surgery, Division of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College, London, UK

    George Geroulakos

  3. Department of Vascular Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    George Geroulakos

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Sfyroeras, G., Geroulakos, G. (2018). Superior Vena Cava Syndrome. In: Geroulakos, G., Sumpio, B. (eds) Vascular Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65936-7_55

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