Lesson of the week: Pulmonary venous stenosis after treatment for atrial fibrillation

BMJ

Volumn 336, Issue 7648, 2008, Pages 830-832

  Kojodjojo, P ^a   Wong, T ^a   Wright, A R ^a   Kon, O M ^a   Oldfield, W ^a   Kanagaratnam, P ^a   Davies, D W ^a   Peters, N S ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; GENERAL CONDITION IMPROVEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG VEIN OBSTRUCTION; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PERCUTANEOUS BALLOON VENOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TISSUE SECTION; VIRUS PNEUMONIA; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PULMONARY VEIN; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 42249103475     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.39457.764942.47     Document Type: Article

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