Overall and segmental agreement of stress echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 531-538

  Loimaala, Antti ^a,b   Groundstroem, Kaj ^b   Pasanen, Matti ^a   Vuori, Ilkka ^a  

^a UKK INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH PROMOTION RESEARCH   (Finland)

^b TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Agreement; Diagnostic accuracy; Stress echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DIPYRIDAMOLE; DOBUTAMINE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BICYCLE ERGOMETRY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 0032854935     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00101.x     Document Type: Article

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