Wear assessment in bileaflet heart valves

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages

  Arru, Pietro ^a   Rinaldi, Stefeno ^a   Stacchino, Carla ^a   Vallana, Franco ^a  

^a Cyberonics Inc   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FATIGUE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRESS;

EID: 0029893775     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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