How are the Myocytes Aggregated so as to Make up the Ventricular Mass?

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 76-86

  Anderson, Robert H ^a   Sanchez Quintana, Damian ^b   Redmann, Klaus ^c   Lunkenheimer, Paul P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

helical heart; unique myocardial band; Ventricular myocardium

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SMOOTH MUSCLE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL AGGREGATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, LEFT VENTRICULAR; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; MYOCYTES, CARDIAC; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 34047268757     PISSN: 10929126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.pcsu.2007.01.016     Document Type: Article

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