The sympathetic contributions to the cardiac plexus

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 25, Issue 3-4, 2003, Pages 210-215

  Pather, N ^a   Partab, P ^b   Singh, B ^b   Satyapal, K S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Cardiac ramus; Cervical ganglia; Heart; Innervation; Thoracic ganglia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALGESIA; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CERVICAL GANGLION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISSECTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FETUS; HEART DENERVATION; HEART INNERVATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART NERVE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REST; SENSORY NERVE; STELLATE GANGLION; SYMPATHECTOMY; SYMPATHETIC GANGLION; SYMPATHETIC TONE; SYMPATHETIC TRUNK; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; GANGLIA, SYMPATHETIC; GANGLIONECTOMY; HEART; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0142242258     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-003-0113-2     Document Type: Article

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