The Divided Left Atrium (Cor Triatriatum)

The Natural and Modified History of Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 295-298

  Dipchand, Anne I ^a,b   Freedom, Robert M ^a,b   Yoo, Shi Joon ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Divided left atrium; HSC experience; Incidence; Morphology; Mortality

Indexed keywords

EID: 5744242577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470986905.ch33     Document Type: Chapter

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