Histological recognition and classification of the atrioventricular node artery variants: a new approach

Cardiovascular Pathology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 346-351

  Nerantzis, Christos E ^a   Gavrielatos, Gerasimos ^b   Kalogrias, Nikolaos ^a   Pappas, Loukas K ^b   Letsas, Konstantinos P ^c   Karakoukis, Nikolaos G ^a   Koutsaftis, Philippos N ^a  

^a Forensic Medical Service of Athens   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular node artery; Histological recognition and classification

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE ARTERY; HIS BUNDLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

ADULT; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 70350568308     PISSN: 10548807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2008.09.006     Document Type: Article

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