Serous fluid leakage following modified Blalock-Taussig operation using PTFE grafts

Indian Heart Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 328-331

  Sahoo, Manoranjan ^a   Sahu, Manoj ^a   Kale, Shailaja ^a   Saxena, Nita ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Congenital heart defects; Pleural effusion; Shunts

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FATALITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART BYPASS, RIGHT; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PLEURAL EFFUSION; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0035350761     PISSN: 00194832     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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