Surgical experience with cardiac echinococcosis

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 422-426

  Kabbani, Sami S ^a   Ramadan, Ahmed ^a   Kabbani, Loay ^a   Sandouk, Aref ^a   Nabhani, Fawzi ^a   Jamil, Hisham ^a  

^a DAMASCUS UNIVERSITY   (Syrian Arab Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEBENDAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CARDIOPLEGIA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART ECHINOCOCCOSIS; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PUNCTURE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 36348932851     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230701500513     Document Type: Article

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