Adventitial layer enlargement correlates with the percentage of medial thickness in peripheral pulmonary arteries from patients with congenital heart defects

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 213-217

  Aiello, Vera Demarchi ^a   Higuchi, Maria De Lourdes ^a   Gutierrez, Paulo Sampaio ^a   Ebaid, Munir ^a   Sesso, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTROPHY; INFANT; LUNG ARTERY; LUNG BIOPSY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SCHOOL CHILD;

EID: 0343488444     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-8807(97)00016-1     Document Type: Article

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