Cardiac echinococcus complicated by ventricular tachycardia

Echocardiography

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 613-615

  Marcì, Marcello ^a   Ajello, Abele ^a   Finazzo, Francesca ^b   Violante, Francesco ^b   Pizzuto, Andrea ^a   Battaglia, Antonino ^a   Quarti, Andrea ^c   Alfieri, Ottavio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b Azienda Ospedaliera Villa Sofia CTO   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac echinococcosis; Two dimensional echocardiography; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0035659531     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2001.00613.x     Document Type: Article

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