Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator: Another device to cover

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 944-951

  Verheyden, Charles N ^a,b   Grothaus, P C ^a   Lynch, D J ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE;

EID: 0029877468     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199604001-00009     Document Type: Article

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