Hypoplastic aortic arch morphology pertinent to growth after surgical correction of aortic coarctation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 516-520

  Machii, Masato ^a,b   Becker, Anton E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b Ebina General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN;

AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; DENSITY; FEMALE; GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPLASIA; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEWBORN; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER;

ACTINS; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC COARCTATION; COLLAGEN; ELASTIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE;

EID: 0030820326     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00444-X     Document Type: Article

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