Situs inversus totalis and single coronary ostium: A coincidence or a pattern?

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 127-129

  Turchin, Alexander ^a   Radentz, Stephen S ^b   Burke, Allen ^c  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OFFICE OF THE CHIEF MEDICAL EXAMINER   (United States)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CORONARY ARTERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SITUS INVERSUS;

ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECTS; FATAL OUTCOME; HEPATITIS, CHRONIC; HUMANS; MALE; SEIZURES; SITUS INVERSUS;

EID: 0034603528     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-8807(99)00040-X     Document Type: Article

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