Editorial: Surgical ablation of lone atrial fibrillation on the beating heart: The chaos continues

Europace

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 297-298

  Damiano, Ralph J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; HIGH-INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND ABLATION; HUMANS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77749333460     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eup442     Document Type: Editorial

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