Transesophageal echocardiographic examination of left subclavian artery branches

Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 271-277

  Nanda, Navin C ^a,c   Thakur, Abhash C ^a   Thakur, Dineshkumar ^b   Narayan, Virenjan Kumar ^a   Espinal, Miguel A ^a   Shoeb, Gamal ^a   Samal, Aditya K ^a   Voros, Szilard ^a   Aaluri, Srinivasa R ^a   Ocak, Ozlem ^a   John, Abraham S ^a   Pasia, Arnold T ^a   Aikens, Michael ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Left costocervical trunk; Left internal mammary artery; Left subclavian artery; Left thyrocervical trunk; Left vertebral artery; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VERTEBRAL ARTERIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032914190     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00814.x     Document Type: Article

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