Surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn , Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Hassantash, Seyed Ahmad ^b   Kalantarian, Shadi ^a   Bikdeli, Behnood ^a   Sadeghian, Maryam ^a   Kasraii, Farshad ^a   Haghdoost, AliAkbar ^c  

^a Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences   (Iran)

^b SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c KERMAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRYOTHERAPY; ELECTROCOAGULATION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MICROWAVE RADIATION; MORTALITY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SINUS RHYTHM; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 55049122801     PISSN: 1469493X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD007318     Document Type: Review

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