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True isolated laevocardia in a neonate

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A neonate with true isolated laevocardia is reported. The heart lesion was truncus communis with an interatrial septal defect and a defect in the membranous interventricular septum. This is the 93rd autopsy reported in the world literature. Two cases have been reported earlier in the Indian literature.

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    K. Zingde, K. K. Khanna, H. Mazumdar, R. S. Ribeiro & M. P. Verenkar

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From the Department of Paediatrics and Pathology, Goa Medical College, Panaji, Goa.

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Zingde, K., Khanna, K.K., Mazumdar, H. et al. True isolated laevocardia in a neonate. Indian J Pediatr 42, 133–135 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02796484

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