Transesophageal ultrasonographic imaging in rat hearts: Visualization of aortic valve vegetations in non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 201-205

  Kupferwasser, I ^a   Darius, H ^a   Buerke, M ^a   Rupprecht, H J ^a   Mohr Kahaly, S ^a   Meyer, J ^a  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NONHUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; RAT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031945266     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(98)70077-X     Document Type: Article

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