Atrial flutter: Part II nomenclature

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 504-506

  Scheinman, Melvin M ^a   Yang, Yanfei ^a   Cheng, Jie ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENT; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; NOMENCLATURE; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; REVIEW; SCAR; TACHYCARDIA; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ATRIAL FLUTTER; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 1842854739     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00472.x     Document Type: Review

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