Introduction - Part I: Heterotaxy and isomerism of the atrial appendages

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 17, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2007, Pages

  Anderson, Robert H ^a,d   Jacobs, Jeffrey P ^b   Gaynor, J William ^c   Wernovsky, Gil ^c  

^a GREAT ORMOND STREET HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCESSORY SPLEEN; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CORONARY SINUS; EDITORIAL; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART DISEASE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HETEROTAXY SYNDROME; HUMAN; ISOMERISM; PULMONARY VEIN; SITUS AMBIGUUS VISCERUM; SITUS INVERSUS; SITUS SOLITUS;

EID: 36949008969     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951107001102     Document Type: Editorial

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