The Spanish Monostrut study group: A ten-year experience with 8,599 implants

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 40-47

  Aris, Alejandro ^a,b,c,d,e,f   Igual, Alberto ^a,b,c,d,e   Padró, José M ^a,b,c,d,e   Burgos, Raul ^a,b,c,d,e   Vallejo, José L ^a,b,c,d,e   Rabasa, José M ^a,b,c,d,e   Llorens, Rafael ^a,b,c,d,e   Casares, Jaime ^a,b,c,d,e  

^a Cardiac Surgery Center   (Spain)

^b Fundacin Jimnez Daz   (Spain)

^c Cardiac Surgery Center   (Spain)

^d Cardiac Surgery Center   (Spain)

^e Cardiac Surgery Center   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 0030199601     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(96)00273-1     Document Type: Article

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