Correlation of thoracic aortic atherosclerotic plaque detected by multiplane transesophageal echocardiography and cardiovascular risk factors

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1552-1555

  Tribouilloy, Christophe ^a,b   Peltier, Marcel ^a   Andrejak, Michel ^a   Rey, Jean Luc ^a   Lesbre, Jean Philippe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CORRELATION FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0032535080     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00707-3     Document Type: Article

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