Functional dominance of the right coronary artery: Incidence in the human heart

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 10-13

  Nerantzis, Christos E ^a,b   Papachristos, John C H ^a   Gribizi, Joan E ^a   Voudris, Vasilis A ^a   Infantis, George P ^a   Koroxenidis, Gabriel T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coronary circulation; Heart; Mitral valve; Papillary muscle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

ADULT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; REFERENCE VALUES;

EID: 0030033943     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2353(1996)9:1<10::aid-ca2>3.0.co;2-3     Document Type: Article

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