Transesophageal echocardiography in thoracic aortic atherosclerosis

Echocardiography

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 233-246

  Kronzon, Itzhak ^a,b   Tunick, Paul A ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

aorta; atherosclerosis; embolic stroke; transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

AORTA ARCH; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA WALL; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCENDING AORTA; ATHEROMA; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDARTERECTOMY; HUMAN; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; REVIEW; STROKE; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029880017     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1996.tb00891.x     Document Type: Review

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