Right Ventricle-to-Pulmonary Artery Shunt in Norwood Procedure: Early Results

World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 44-50

  Januszewska, Katarzyna ^a   Kozlik Feldmann, Rainer ^a   Abicht, Jan ^a   Dalla Pozza, Robert ^a   Malec, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

congenital heart surgery; hypoplastic left heart syndrome; neonate; Norwood procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990375012     PISSN: 21501351     EISSN: 21500136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2150135109360914     Document Type: Article

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