Electrophysiologic Characteristics of Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia: Implications for the Reentrant Circuits

Cardiac Electrophysiology: Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 537-557

  Lockwood, Deborah ^a   Otomo, Kenichiro ^a   Wang, Zulu ^a   Forresti, Sara ^b   Nakagawa, Hiroshi ^a   Beckman, Karen ^c   Scherlag, Benjamin J ^a   Patterson, Eugene ^a   Lazzara, Ralph ^a,d   Jackman, Warren M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Cardiology   (United States)

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

^d Cardiac Arrhythmia Research Institute   (United States)

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EID: 84904143864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B0-7216-0323-8/50062-2     Document Type: Chapter

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