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Gaetano Rocco
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425
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9
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Federico Venuta
14
229
6
8
4
Alessandro Brunelli
10
100
6
9
4
Shaf Baloch Keshavjee
10
230
8
22
7
Pier Luigi Filosso
8
175
5
7
7
Ayesha S Bryant
8
191
3
4
9
Gonzalo Varela
7
157
5
5
10
Sudish C Murthy
6
115
3
4
10
Virginia R Litle
6
5
4
32
12
Marcelo Cypel
5
158
8
11
12
Raja M Flores
5
67
6
22
12
Frank C Detterbeck
5
108
8
13
12
Douglas J Mathisen
5
62
5
7
12
Brian E Louie
5
41
6
16
12
Valerie W Rusch
5
98
13
35
12
Shanda H Blackmon
5
52
4
10
12
Paula Antonia Ugalde Figueroa
5
60
3
6
20
Michael Lanuti
4
59
6
19
20
Morihito Okada
4
53
14
27
20
Gail E Darling
4
71
4
12
20
Robert E Merritt
4
91
2
4
20
Donna E Maziak
4
18
3
10
20
David R Jones
4
103
13
31
20
Hiran C Fernando
4
49
5
15
20
Eugenio Pompeo
4
92
6
7
20
Enrico O Ruffini
4
129
8
10
20
Vincenzo Ambrogi
4
19
5
24
20
Alberto Oliaro
4
129
7
8
20
Douglas E Wood
4
266
6
6
20
David T Cooke
4
63
3
5
33
Alberto Sandri
3
78
4
4
33
David F Yankelevitz
3
22
8
25
33
Francesco Guerrera
3
84
10
10
33
Giulia Veronesi
3
66
12
29
33
Andrew C Chang
3
73
8
22
33
Yoshinori Handa
3
48
8
11
33
Kazuhiro Yasufuku
3
35
16
31
33
Pascal Alexandre Thomas
3
67
19
34
33
Francesco Guerrera
3
84
6
8
33
Márcio M Gomes
3
5
2
17
33
Simran K Randhawa
3
10
1
2
33
Loretta Erhunmwunsee
3
49
3
7
33
Calvin Sh Ng
3
93
16
17
33
Eric Lim
3
37
7
18
33
Nuria M Novoa
3
61
8
8
33
Tiziano De Giacomo
3
58
7
10
33
Dirk E Van Raemdonck
3
98
14
14
33
Nelson Wolosker
3
55
18
20
33
Sébastien Gilbert
3
99
5
8
33
Travis
3
15
4
5
53
Jin-Shing Chen
2
23
18
36
53
Matthew D Taylor
2
20
3
8
53
Jonathan C Yeung
2
83
6
12
53
Isabelle Opitz
2
9
15
47
53
Mark H Bilsky
2
31
17
40
53
Sabha Ganai
2
14
5
14
53
Cecilia Pompili
2
31
8
12
53
Marco
2
41
5
7
53
Aida Venado
2
8
1
6
53
Lisa Bodei
2
57
8
21
53
Hiroshi Date
2
29
17
33
53
Charles T Bakhos
2
18
2
3
53
Matthew G Hartwig
2
63
15
13
53
Tom Treasure
2
32
20
23
53
Carole Dennie
2
3
6
22
53
Ugo Pastorino
2
9
32
107
53
Haruhiro Inoue
2
203
21
11
53
Tiago N Machuca
2
19
5
23
53
Luca Bertolaccini
2
20
18
22
53
Raphael Bueno
2
36
13
28
53
Mark Kidd
2
57
6
18
53
Wan-Ting Hung
2
23
2
4
53
DuyKhanh Pham Ceppa
2
7
3
10
53
Jose Ribas Milanez de Campos
2
36
6
12
53
Henning A Gaissert
2
0
7
24
53
Biniam Kidane
2
41
7
7
53
Donald E Low
2
37
8
11
53
Laurens J Ceulemans
2
2
10
30
53
Christina L Costantino
2
4
2
8
53
Alessandro Gronchi
2
9
36
89
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Smita Sihag
2
33
5
6
53
Vladimir A Krasnov
2
22
1
2
53
Steven R Demeester
2
4
6
19
53
Claudia I Henschke
2
23
12
37
53
Giulio Maurizi
2
40
6
6
53
Stephanie H Chang
2
46
7
2
53
Alessandro Pardolesi
2
26
7
12
53
Benny Weksler
2
44
8
9
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Joe Y Chang
2
54
21
35
53
Mohsen Ibrahim
2
42
10
14
53
Moishe Liberman
2
31
6
6
53
Krasnov Denis
2
22
1
1
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Harald C Ott
2
63
6
15
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Errol L Bush
2
43
5
9
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Peter B Licht
2
14
8
16
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Eric Vallieres
2
17
6
19
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Marc de Perrot
2
7
15
51
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Marcelo F Jiménez
2
54
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Jasleen Kukreja
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4
26
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Charles L Daley
2
100
16
17
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Bernard J Park
2
187
5
3
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Alan D L Sihoe
2
43
7
11
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Paolo Solidoro
2
67
8
9
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Michael T Jaklitsch
2
24
7
10
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Mathew Thomas
2
25
4
7
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Jules Lin
2
59
15
20
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Nasser K Altorki
2
41
13
33
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Linda W Martin
2
12
4
10
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Tamas F Molnar
2
41
2
2
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Karen J Dickinson
2
37
5
4
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Reza Mehran
2
12
5
17
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Sean C Wightman
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10
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7
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Michael A Erdek
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Ciprian Bolca
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41
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James Huang
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11
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Aaron R Dezube
1
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Jeffrey A Bogart
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Jonathan M Samet
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Pierre Mordant
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Dominic Emerson
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Joel E Richter
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Ammara A Watkins
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Moshe Hashmonai
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Ryan C Fields
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Jiang Fan
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Mara B Antonoff
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Paul Aridgides
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David E Ost
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Javier H Campos
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Deniz Uluk
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James M Meza
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Caitlin Anstee
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Gerardo Rodriguez
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Kelly Fitzgerald
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Puspa Thapa
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Konrad Hoetzenecker
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Stefan Sponholz
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Andreas Meisel
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Paulo Manoel Pego-Fernandes
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Massimiliano Paci
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David G Lehenbauer
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Cayo Gonzalez
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Seth B Krantz
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Jens Benn Sørensen
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Yaron Shargall
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Lyudmila Bazhenova
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Marco Schiavon
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Federico Tacconi
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Michele Carbone
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Jeroen M H Hendriks
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Ya-Jung Cheng
1
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Gabriel Loor
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Euan A Ashley
1
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Kevin L Grimes
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Thomas R Gildea
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Tommaso Tonetti
1
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Alexander Marx
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Giorgio Treglia
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Ernest G Chan
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Martin Utley
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Arne Neyrinck
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Mirella Marino
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David Ball
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Annemarie Weissenbacher
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Claudio Caviezel
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Charles B Simone Ii
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Ankit Bharat
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Kazuhiro Suzuki
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Alessandro Morabito
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Amie Kent
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1
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Nicolas Roche
1
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Thomas K Waddell
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Katarzyna Furrer
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Aimee Y Zhang
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Manoj Kumar Karmakar
1
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Paolo Boffetta
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Eric L Grogan
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Piero Ferolla
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Todd L Demmy
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Daniel Sifrim
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Benny Chung-Ying Zee
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Allan Gottschalk
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Gilbert Massard
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John Greenland
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Gil I Wolfe
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Babu V Naidu
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