Diagnosis, localization and evaluation of malignancy of heart and mediastinal tumors by conventional and transesophageal echocardiography

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 395-408

  Geibel, A ^a,b   Kasper, W ^a   Keck, A ^a   Hofmann, Th ^a   Konstantinides, S ^a   Just, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Heart tumors; Mediastinal tumors; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; HEART CANCER; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINUM CANCER; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUMOR BIOPSY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD;

EID: 0029800488     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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