Contrast transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis and localization of diffuse pulmonary telanglectasias

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Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 557-559

  Oliveira, Guilherme H M ^a   Seward, James B ^a   Cortese, Denis A ^b   Dines, David E ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Arteriovenous malformation; Contrast echocardiography; Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia; Intrapulmonary shunts; Pulmonary telangiectasias; Rendu Osler Weber syndrome; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENDU OSLER WEBER DISEASE; TELANGIECTASIA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033874276     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.118.2.557     Document Type: Article

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