Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 89, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 923-949

  Woo, Y Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic; Minimally invasive; Mitral; Valve surgery; Valvuloplasty

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INCISION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MITRAL ANNULOPLASTY; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY VALVULOPLASTY; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR;

HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 70349308634     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2009.05.005     Document Type: Review

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