Thoracotomy approach for congenital and acquired heart defects: Its possible applications in the current era

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-45

  Cherian, Kotturathu Mammem ^a   Pannu, Harshbir Singh ^a   Sankar, Nainar Madhu ^a   Agarwal, Sunil Kumar ^a   Basavaraj, Sunil ^a   Rao, Suresh Gururaja ^a   Rajan, Sethurathnam ^a   Prasad, Velivela Satya ^a   Singh, Rajratnam Karnan Kalyan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0029871477     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.1996.tb00006.x     Document Type: Article

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