Catheter Ablation of Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia

Catheter Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias: Basic Concepts and Clinical Applications, Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 120-148

  Jackman, Warren M ^a   Lockwood, Deborah ^a   Nakagawa, Hiroshi ^a   Po, Sunny S ^a   Beckman, Karen J ^a   Wu, Richard ^a   Wang, Zulu ^a   Scherlag, Benjamin J ^a   Becker, Anton ^a   Lazzara, Ralph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bundle catheter; Catheter ablation; Catheter electrodes; Electrophysiologic study; Radiographic image

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951967808     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696279.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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