Anatomy of the atrioventricular junctions with regard to ventricular preexcitation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 8 II, 1997, Pages 2072-2076

  Anderson, Robert H ^a   Ho, Siew Yen ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Accessory muscular atrioventricular connections; Atrio Hisian tracts; Atriofascicular tracts; Mahaim conduction; Nodes of Kent; Wolff Parkinson White syndrome

Indexed keywords

ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY SINUS; DIVERTICULOSIS; HEART ACCESSORY CONDUCTION PATHWAY; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART PREEXCITATION; HUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; BUNDLE OF HIS; CORONARY ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; PRE-EXCITATION SYNDROMES; PRE-EXCITATION, MAHAIM-TYPE; PURKINJE FIBERS; TRICUSPID VALVE; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 0030871306     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb03631.x     Document Type: Article

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