The classification of pericardial disease in the age of modern medicine

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 13-21

  Maisch, Bernhard ^a   Ristic, Arsen D ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PERICARDITIS; REVIEW;

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; HUMAN; PERICARDITIS;

EID: 0036134258     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-002-0121-6     Document Type: Article

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