Choices physicians would make if they were the parents of a child with hypoplastic left heart syndrome

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1506-1509

  Kon, Alexander A ^a   Ackerson, Lynn ^b   Lo, Bernard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEONATOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038540395     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(03)00412-0     Document Type: Article

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