Cardioscopic guidance of linear lesion creation for radiofrequency ablation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1189-1193

  Inoue, Yoshito ^a   Yozu, Ryohei ^b   Onoguchi, Katsuhisa ^b   Kabei, Nobuyuki ^b   Takeuchi, Shigeyuki ^b   Kawada, Shiaki ^b  

^a Imperial Foundation Saiseikai Utsunomiya Hospital   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; EPICARDIUM; EVALUATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PACING; HISTOLOGY; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ENDOSCOPY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART; SWINE;

EID: 0037384022     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04716-1     Document Type: Article

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