Cardiac veins: A review of the literature

Clinical Anatomy

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 129-145

  Loukas, Marios ^a,b   Bilinsky, Samuel ^a,b   Bilinsky, Esther ^a,b   El Sedfy, Abraham ^a,b   Anderson, Robert H ^a,b  

^a ST GEORGE S UNIVERSITY   (Grenada)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior interventricular vein; Cardiac anatomy; Coronary sinus; Middle cardiac vein

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGIOGENESIS; ANTERIOR INTERVENTRICULAR CARDIAC VEIN; CLASSIFICATION; CORONARY SINUS; CORONARY VEIN; GREAT CARCIAC VEIN; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART INFERIOR LEFT VENTRICULAR VEIN; HEART LEFT ATRIUM VEIN; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VEIN; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM VEIN; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VEIN; HUMAN; LEFT MARGINAL CARDIAC VEIN; MIDDLE HEART VEIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SMALL CARCIAC VEIN; THEBESIAN VALVE; VEIN ANEURYSM; VEIN CATHETERIZATION; VEIN VALVE; VENOUS BLOOD; VIEUSSENS VALVE;

CORONARY SINUS; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VEINS;

EID: 58249105143     PISSN: 08973806     EISSN: 10982353     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ca.20745     Document Type: Review

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