Spiral computerized tomography (Dual Helical Mode) as a detector of aortic atheromas in patients with stroke and systemic emboli: Additional benefit of the contrast-enhanced technique

Israel Medical Association Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-5

  Tenenbaum, Alexander ^a   Garniek, Alexander ^a,b   Shemesh, Joseph ^a   Stroh, Chaim I ^a   Itzchak, Yacov ^a,b   Vered, Zvi ^a   Motro, Michael ^a   Fisman, Enrique Z ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Aorta; Atherosclerosis; Computerized tomography; Embolism; Stroke; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

DIATRIZOATE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033848042     PISSN: 15651088     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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