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Sezai Celik1 \* and Ezel Erşen<sup>2</sup>

1 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Avicenna Hospitals, Istanbul, Turkey

2 Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, Department of Thoracic Surgery, Istanbul University - Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey

\*Address all correspondence to: siyamie@gmail.com

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