Anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the pulmonary artery: evaluation with use of 64-slice multidetector computed tomography.

Tex Heart Inst J

Departments of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Radiology, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, 620 John Paul Jones Circle, Portsmouth, VA 23708, USA.

Published: August 2013

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