Pulmonary vein and atrial wall pathology in human total anomalous pulmonary venous connection

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 302-312

  Douglas, Yvonne L ^a,b   Jongbloed, Monique R M ^b   den Hartog, Wietske C E ^b   Bartelings, Margot M ^b   Bogers, Ad J J C ^c   Ebels, Tjark ^a   DeRuiter, Marco C ^b   Gittenberger de Groot, Adriana C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Histology; Left atrium; Myocardium; Pulmonary veins; TAPVC

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; NEWBORN; PARTIAL ANOMALOUS VENOUS CONNECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; SITUS INVERSUS; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VEIN MALFORMATION;

ADULT; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 67349112909     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.11.098     Document Type: Article

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