Brief communication: Atrial-esophageal fistulas after radiofrequency ablation

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 144, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 572-574

  Cummings, Jennifer E ^a   Schweikert, Robert A ^a   Saliba, Walid I ^a   Burkhardt, J David ^a   Kilikaslan, Fethi ^a   Saad, Eduardo ^b   Natale, Andrea ^a  

^a Section of Electrophysiology and Pacing   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL PRÓ CARDÍACO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FISTULA; HEART ATRIUM; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; FISTULA; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645985495     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-144-8-200604180-00007     Document Type: Article

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