A clinical dilemma: Cardiac and pericardiac echinococcosis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 68, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1290-1294

  Birincioglu, C Levent ^a   Bardakci, Haşmet ^a   Küçüker, Şeref A ^a   Ulus, Ahmet T ^a   Arda, Kemal ^a   Yamak, Birol ^a   Taşdemir, Oguz ^a  

^a TURKIYE YUKSEK IHTISAS HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEBENDAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM RUPTURE; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTINEMATODAL AGENTS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEBENDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PERICARDIUM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE;

EID: 0032746927     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00692-X     Document Type: Conference Paper

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