The preferable use of port access surgical technique for right and left atrial procedures

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2005, Pages

  Gersak, Borut ^a   Sostaric, M ^a   Kalisnik, J M ^a   Blumauer, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA CLAMPING; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MITRAL VALVE; MORTALITY; PORT ACCESS SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STERNOTOMY; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; AGED; AORTA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ATRIUM; INDWELLING CATHETER; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AORTA; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CONSTRICTION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39049183693     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20041143     Document Type: Article

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