Giant eustachian valve: With echocardiographic appearance of divided right atrium

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 336-338

  Yavuz, Turhan ^a   Nazli, Cem ^a   Kinay, Ozan ^a   Kutsal, Ali ^a  

^a SULEYMAN DEMIREL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cor triatriatum; Echocardiography; Heart atrium

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; MEDICAL RECORD; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0036452806     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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