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Cardiac Embryology

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A minimum basic knowledge regarding cardiac embryogenesis is necessary to facilitate understanding congenital heart malformations. This chapter is meant as a basic overview to achieve this end and is not meant to fully encompass the totality of this complex subject.

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  1. The Christ Hospital Heart and Vascular Center of Greater Cincinnati, The Lindner Center for Research and Education, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Wojciech Mazur & Robert Pelberg

  2. Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

    Marilyn J. Siegel

  3. Department of Clinical Radiology and Imaging Diagnostics, 4th Military Hospital, Wrocław, Poland

    Tomasz Miszalski-Jamka

  4. Center for Diagnosis Prevention and Telemedicine, John Paul II Hospital, Kraków, Poland

    Tomasz Miszalski-Jamka

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Mazur, W., Siegel, M.J., Miszalski-Jamka, T., Pelberg, R. (2013). Cardiac Embryology. In: CT Atlas of Adult Congenital Heart Disease. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5088-6_1

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