Usefulness of transesophageal echocardiography for diagnosing anomalous coronary arteries;Utilidad de la ecocardiografía transesofágica en el diagnóstico de anomalías coronarias

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 657-662

  Vicente, Tomás ^a   Pinar, Eduardo ^a   Pérez Lorente, Fernando ^a   López Candel, José ^a   Picó, Francisco ^b   Pérez De Juan, Miguel Ángel ^c   Valdés, Mariano ^a,d  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO REINA SOFÍA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^c Department of Medical Oncology   (Spain)

^d NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anomalous coronaries; Transesophageal echocardiography Doppler flow

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY VESSEL MALFORMATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 0030228630     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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