Progress in Pediatric Cardiology
Volume 28, Issue 1 , Pages 29-34 , January 2010

Tetralogy of Fallot — Does MR imaging have the answers?

  • Saskia E. Luijnenburg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Erasmus Medical Center - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Department of Radiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
    • Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Hubert W. Vliegen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
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  • Barbara J.M. Mulder

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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  • Willem A. Helbing

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Erasmus Medical Center - Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Department of Radiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, Department of Paediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Sp-2429, P.O. Box 2060, 3000 CB, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Tel.: +31 10 7036264; fax: +31 10 7036772.

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Progress in Pediatric Cardiology
Volume 28, Issue 1 , Pages 29-34 , January 2010

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