The anatomy of a novel malformation of the cardinal vein system

Pediatric and Developmental Pathology

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 318-321

  Castro, Eumenia C C ^a   Devine, William ^a   Galambos, Csaba ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Cardinal; Vein; Vena cava

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AORTA ARCH; AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA SUBVALVULAR STENOSIS; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; AUTOPSY; AZYGOS VEIN; BIRTH WEIGHT; BLALOCK TAUSSIG SHUNT; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME DELETION 22Q11; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY SINUS; DISSECTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FAMILY HISTORY; FETUS ECHOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART; HEART ARREST; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HETEROTAXY SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT VENTRICLE; HYPOTENSION; ILIAC VEIN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KARYOTYPE; KIDNEY VEIN; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NEWBORN; NORWOOD PROCEDURE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PERSISTENT LEFT SUPERIOR VENA CAVA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SMALL FOR DATE INFANT; TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOSIS; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FATALITY; PATHOLOGY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN;

FATAL OUTCOME; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 79952044206     PISSN: 10935266     EISSN: 16155742     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2350/09-07-0671-CR.1     Document Type: Article

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