Variations in Pulmonary Venous Drainage to the Left Atrium: Implications for Radiofrequency Ablation

Radiology

Volumn 230, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 824-829

  Marom, Edith M ^a,b   Herndon, James E ^a   Kim, Yun Hyeon ^a,c   McAdams, H Page ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^c Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Computed tomography (CT), thin section; Pulmonary arteries, flow dynamics; Pulmonary veins, CT; Radiofrequency (RF) ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY VEINS; PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 1342329985     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2303030315     Document Type: Article

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