Pathologic aspects of polytetrafluoroethylene sutures in human heart

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 883-887

  Minatoya, Kenji ^a,b   Okabayashi, Hitoshi ^a   Shimada, Ichiro ^a   Ohno, Nobuhisa ^a   Nishina, Takeshi ^a   Yokota, Tadaaki ^a   Takahashi, Mutsuo ^a   Ishihara, Tokuhiro ^a   Hoover, Eddie L ^a  

^a KOKURA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b ERIE COUNTY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLAGEN; FIBRIN; POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SUTURE;

EID: 0029978119     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(95)01138-2     Document Type: Article

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