Diameters of the pulmonary arteries and veins as an indicator of bilateral and unilateral pulmonary blood flow in patients with congenital heart disease

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 253-260

  Kawahira, Youichi ^a,b   Kishimoto, Hidefumi ^a   Kawata, Hiroaki ^a   Ikawa, Seiichiro ^a   Ueda, Hideki ^a   Nakajima, Tohru ^a   Kayatani, Futoshi ^a   Inamura, Noboru ^a   Nakada, Takeshi ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEIN;

EID: 0031448231     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.1997.tb00136.x     Document Type: Article

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