Multiple pulmonary artery aneurysms due to infective endocarditis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 593-596

  Bozkurt, A Kürşat ^a,b   Öztunç, Funda ^a   Akman, Canan ^a   Kurugoglu, Sebuh ^a   Eroglu, Ayşe Güler ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CASE REPORT; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LUNG LOBECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM;

ANEURYSM, INFECTED; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; PULMONARY ARTERY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037314584     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04303-5     Document Type: Article

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