Scimitar syndrome presenting in infancy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 154-159

  Huddleston, Charles B ^a   Exil, Vernat ^a   Canter, Charles E ^a   Mendeloff, Eric N ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEXTROCARDIA; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SCIMITAR SYNDROME; TACHYPNEA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

EID: 0033056731     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)01227-2     Document Type: Article

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