Thoracic aortic aneurysms: Role of echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 213-232

  Goldstein, Steven A ^a   Lindsay Jr , Joseph ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

echocardiography; thoracic aortic aneurysm

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM RUPTURE; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTITIS; AORTOGRAPHY; BLUNT TRAUMA; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MARFAN SYNDROME; MYCOTIC ANEURYSM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYPHILIS; THORACIC AORTA ANEURYSM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029987921     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1996.tb00890.x     Document Type: Review

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