Should transesophageal echocardiography become a routine test in patients with suspected pulmonary thromboembolism?

Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 8 PART I, 1998, Pages 779-785

  Lengyel, Maria ^a,b  

^a Hungarian Institute of Cardiology   (Hungary)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Paradoxical embolism; Pulmonary embolism; Right heart thrombus

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031649524     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00680.x     Document Type: Article

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