Editorial: How can we best describe the components of the mitral valve?

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 736-739

  Anderson, Robert H ^a   Frater, Robert W M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ANOMALY; AORTA VALVE; BODY POSITION; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SIZE; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG CIRCULATION; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKILL; SURGEON; SURGICAL ANATOMY; VENTRICULOATRIAL SHUNT; AORTA; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HISTOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE;

AORTA; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PAPILLARY MUSCLES; TERMINOLOGY;

EID: 33751434868     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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