Advances in echocardiography

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 360-366

  Premawardhana, U ^a   Celermajer, D S ^a  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGING; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033948519     PISSN: 00048291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2000.tb00838.x     Document Type: Review

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