Recent role of imaging in the diagnosis of pericardial disease

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 33-40

  Karia, Darshak H ^a   Xing, Yan Qiu ^a   Kuvin, Jeffrey T ^a   Nesser, H Joachim ^a   Pandian, Natesa G ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; REVIEW;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; HUMAN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE;

EID: 0036134633     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-002-0124-3     Document Type: Article

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