Bilateral coronary ostial stenosis and aortic regurgitation due to syphilitic aortitis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 56-59

  Aizawa, Hiroki ^a   Hasegawa, Akira ^a   Arai, Masashi ^a   Naganuma, Fumio ^a   Hatori, Masako ^a   Kanda, Tsugiyasu ^a   Suzuki, Tadashi ^b   Murata, Kazuhiko ^a   Satoh, Yasushi ^a   Ishikawa, Susumu ^a   Morishita, Yasuo ^a   Nagai, Ryozo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic valve replacement; Coronary artery bypass graft

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTITIS; ARTICLE; BJOERK SHILEY VALVE PROSTHESIS; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; SYPHILIS;

EID: 6844252252     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.37.56     Document Type: Article

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