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What is a ventricle? Morphologic lessons from the Fontan circulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 August 2008

Robert H. Anderson*
Affiliation:
Cardiology in the Young
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R.H Anderson, Paediatrics, Imperial College School of Medicine at National Heart & Lung Institute, Dovehouse Street, London SW3 6LY Tel: 44 171 351 8751, Fax 44 171 351 8230
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Abstract

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Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1998

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