Sudden infant death with anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery

Legal Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 250-253

  Aoki, Yasuhiro ^a   Saigusa, Kiyoshi ^a   Nakayama, Yumi ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Cardiovascular abnormalities; Coronary vessels anomalies; Myocardial ischemia; Sudden infant death

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CARDIOVASCULAR MALFORMATION; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; SUDDEN DEATH;

EID: 0033507911     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(99)80045-5     Document Type: Article

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