Congenital heart diseases and other major anomalies in patients with Down syndrome

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 219-222

  Abbag, Fuad I ^a  

^a KING KHALID UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLEFT LIP PALATE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN SYNDROME; DUODENUM ATRESIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION DEFECT; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; LUNG AGENESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAUDI ARABIA; SURVIVAL RATE;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; DOWN SYNDROME; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33644525350     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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