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Truncus Arteriosus

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International Practice in Cardiothoracic Surgery

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Persistent truncus arteriosus is a condition in which the main pulmonary truncus is not related to the right ventricle but arises at some position in the aorta. For discussion purposes of surgical correction, the pulmonary trunk arises from some portion of the ascending aorta.

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  1. Paul Ebert
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  1. Beijing Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Medical Center, Beijing, China

    Yingkai Wu MB. ChB. (Professor of Thoracic Surgery) (Professor of Thoracic Surgery)

  2. University of California at San Diego, California, USA

    Richard M. Peters M.D. (Professor of Surgery & Biomedical Engineering) (Professor of Surgery & Biomedical Engineering)

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© 1986 Science Press, Beijing and Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, Dordrecht

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Ebert, P. (1986). Truncus Arteriosus. In: Wu, Y., Peters, R.M. (eds) International Practice in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4259-2_65

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