Echocardiography-guided pericardiocentesis with a needle attached to a probe

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 741-742

  Suehiro, Shigefumi ^a   Hattori, Koji ^a   Shibata, Toshihiko ^a   Sasaki, Yasuyuki ^a   Minamimura, Hirokazu ^a   Kinoshita, Hiroaki ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; NEEDLE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030028468     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(95)00950-7     Document Type: Article

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