Transesophageal echocardiographic identification of neck veins: Value of contrast echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 259-267

  LaMotte, Lance C ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b   Thakur, Abhash C ^a   Agrawal, Gopal ^a   Kolda, Michal ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Contrast echocardiography; Left innominate vein; Neck veins; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY; JUGULAR VEIN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0031958581     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1998.tb00605.x     Document Type: Article

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