Clinical investigations over 13 years to establish the nature of the cardiac defects in patients having abnormalities of lateralization

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 275-282

  Yildirim, Selman Vefa ^a   Tokel, Kürsad ^a   Varan, Birgül ^a   Aslamaci, Sait ^a   Ekici, Enver ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Isomerism; Morphology; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEATH; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG ATRESIA; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BODY PATTERNING; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34249059614     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951107000479     Document Type: Article

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