Echocardiographic description of the anatomic relations within the normal aortic root

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 240-246

  Tamás, Éva ^a   Nylander, Eva ^a  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA ROOT; AORTA SINUS; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SURFACE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IN VIVO STUDY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SYSTOLE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANATOMY, CROSS-SECTIONAL; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 34249990931     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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