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The vestibular defect: an interatrial communication due to a deficiency in the atrial septal component derived from the vestibular spine

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2005

Geoffrey P. Sharratt
Affiliation:
Department of Pediatrics and Cardiology, Isaac Walton Killam Health Centre, and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Sandra Webb
Affiliation:
St George's Hospital Medical School, London, United Kingdom
Robert H. Anderson
Affiliation:
Cardiac Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Abstract

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Type
Clinico-Pathological Correlation
Copyright
© 2003 Cambridge University Press

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