Scimitar syndrome: A complex form of anomalous pulmonary venous return

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 529-534

  Korkmaz, Askin Ali ^a   Yildiz, Cenk Eray ^b   Onan, Burak ^c   Guden, Mustafa ^a   Cetin, Gurkan ^b   Babaoglu, Kadir ^d  

^a Sema Hospital   (Turkey)

^b ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^d KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CYANOSIS; DEXTROCARDIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSPNEA; FAILURE TO THRIVE; FATIGUE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; LOBECTOMY; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; LUNG RESECTION; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; SCIMITAR SYNDROME; SYNCOPE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; SCIMITAR SYNDROME; TURKEY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 80053380718     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2011.01309.x     Document Type: Review

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