Approach for primary mitral valve surgery: Right anterolateral thoracotomy or median sternotomy

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 370-375

  Srivastava, Ashok K ^a   Garg, Sanjeeve K ^a,b   Ganjoo, Anoop K ^a  

^a SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b Aggarwal Farm   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; FEMALE; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; KELOID; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY;

ADULT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; STERNUM; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0031877174     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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