Editorial: Understanding the structure of the unicuspid and unicommissural aortic valve

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 670-673

  Anderson, Robert H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ROOT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; MORPHOGENESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; ADULT; AORTA VALVE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART SURGERY; HISTOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; NOTE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AORTIC VALVE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 1542645838     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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