Cardiovascular Pathology
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages e39-e42 , March 2010

A Braunwald-Cutter valve: a mitral prosthesis at 33 years

  • Adriana Luk

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Toronto General Hospital/University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
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  • Ki-Dong Lim

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    • ,
  • Raheela Siddiqui

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Toronto General Hospital/University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
    • ,
  • Shruti Gupta

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Toronto General Hospital/University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
    • ,
  • Brian W. Gilbert

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
    • ,
  • Stephen E. Fremes

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
    • ,
  • Jagdish Butany

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Toronto General Hospital/University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
    • Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondibg author. Department of Pathology, 11th floor, Toronto General Hospital, 200 Elizabeth St., Toronto, ON, Canada M5G 2C4. Tel.: +1 416 340 3008; fax: +1 416 340 4213

Received 20 June 2008 ,Revised 11 July 2008 ,Accepted 6 October 2008.

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PII: S1054-8807(08)00133-6

doi: 10.1016/j.carpath.2008.10.003

Cardiovascular Pathology
Volume 19, Issue 2 , Pages e39-e42 , March 2010

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