A Chronic, Massive Thrombus in the Right Main Pulmonary Artery - A Case Report and Echocardiographic Analysis

Circulation Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 312-314

  Murata, Ichiro ^a   Sonoda, Makoto ^a   Watanabe, Fumiyoshi ^a   Yang, Weidong ^a   Takenaka, Katsu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Echocardiography; Pulmonary artery (PA); Thrombus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG EMBOLISM; PULMONARY ARTERY; THROMBOGENESIS;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 0032919640     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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