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The prevalence of bifoliate pulmonary valves

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

L. M. Gerlis
L. M. Gerlis*
Affiliation:
Department of Paediatric Cardiac Morphology, The National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK
*
Dr L. M. Gerlis, Department of Paediatric Cardiac Morphology, The National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY, UK. Tel: 0171 352 8121; Fax: 0171 351 8230.
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A BIFOLIATE CONDITION OF THE PULMONARY: valve may occur as an isolated phenomenon in otherwise normal hearts or in association with other anomalies in congenitally malformed hearts. The former condition is very rare, whereas the latter condition is quite common.

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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , September 1999 , pp. 499 - 502
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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