Congenital complete absence of the left pericardium in a patient with ascending aortic aneurysm

Anadolu Kardiyoloji Dergisi

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 112-

  Kandemir, Özer ^a,b   Yildiz, Ülkü ^a   Can, Benhur ^a   Kale, Arzum ^a   Tezcaner, Tevfik ^a   Zorlutuna, Yaman ^a  

^a BAYINDIR HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; HEART PALPITATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDIUM; PERICARDIUM AGENESIS; STERNOTOMY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; PERICARDIUM;

EID: 33645053506     PISSN: 13028723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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