Modified Blalock-Taussig shunt using allograft saphenous vein: Six years' experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 58-62

  Bogáts, Gábor ^a   Kertész, Erzsébet ^a   Katona, Márta ^a   Tószegi, Anna ^a   Kovács, Gábor S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLALOCK TAUSSIG ANASTOMOSIS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DEXTROCARDIA; FALLOT TETRALOGY; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANT; LUNG ATRESIA; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; SAPHENOUS VEIN;

EID: 19244371704     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(95)00931-0     Document Type: Article

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