Box lesion in the open left atrium for surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation  Leonid Sternik, MD, Alexander Kogan, MD, David Luria, MD, Michael Glikson,

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Box lesion in the open left atrium for surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation  Leonid Sternik, MD, Alexander Kogan, MD, David Luria, MD, Michael Glikson, MD, Ateret Malachy, MA, Shany Levin, MA, Ehud Raanani, MD  The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery  Volume 147, Issue 3, Pages 956-959 (March 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.02.027 Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions

Figure 1 Box lesion with bipolar radiofrequency ablation device. The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2014 147, 956-959DOI: (10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.02.027) Copyright © 2014 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Terms and Conditions