Pericardiectomy for Active Constrictive Tuberculous Pericarditis
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Pericardiectomy for constrictive pericarditis.
Pericardiectomy is well recognized as a logical and rewarding form of treatment for constrictive pericarditis. The historical background of the operation has been fully described by Sellors (1946) and it is not felt that the series of cases to be presented here has anything to add to the clinical picture of constrictive pericarditis so fully described by Evans and Jackson (1952). There are cert...
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عنوان ژورنال: Japanese Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1883-4108,0285-1474
DOI: 10.4326/jjcvs.34.276