Aspergillus mural vegetation identified by transesophageal echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 283-285

  Lim, Marcy L ^a   Oliver, Dwight H ^a   Barasch, Eddy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspergillus sp.; mural endocarditis; transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0030912939     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1997.tb00723.x     Document Type: Article

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