Late ventricular structure after partial left ventriculectomy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1257-1259

  Lunkenheimer, Paul P ^a   Redmann, Klaus ^a   Cryer, Colin W ^b   Sánchez Quintana, Damian ^c   Ho, Siew Yen ^c   Anderson, Robert H ^c   Batista, Randas V ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b Institute of Numerical Mathematics   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d Fund do Coracao Vilela Batista   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE COURSE; HEART DILATATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0034013241     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)01452-6     Document Type: Article

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