The Dor procedure: What has changed after fifteen years of clinical practice?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 886-890

  Menicanti, Lorenzo ^a,b   Di Donato, Marisa ^a,b  

^a IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; DOR PROCEDURE; EDITORIAL; GEOMETRY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART VENTRICLE VOLUME; HISTORY; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0036830172     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mtc.2002.129140     Document Type: Article

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