Silent pulmonary embolism of a large right atrial thrombus

Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 503-506

  Tsoukas, Athanasios ^a,c   Athanasopoulos, George ^b   Koliandris, Ioannis ^a   Koutelou, Maria ^b   Ritsou, Marina ^a   Christakos, Stamatios ^a   Cokkinos, Dennis V ^b  

^a Asclepion Voulas Hospital   (Greece)

^b ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Pulmonary embolism; Right atrium; Thrombus

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; PELVIS FRACTURE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBECTOMY;

EID: 0031846494     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00639.x     Document Type: Article

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