Does this patient have an abnormal systolic murmur?

JAMA

Volumn 277, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 564-571

  Etchells, Edward ^a   Bell, Chaim ^b   Robb, Kenneth ^b  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AORTA STENOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTOLIC HEART MURMUR; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

EID: 0031051641     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.277.7.564     Document Type: Review

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