Cardiac tuberculosis with multiple intracardiac masses: A case report

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 756-758

  Özer, Necla ^a,b,c   Aytemir, Kudret ^a,b   Sade, Elif ^a,b   Oto, Aytekin ^a,b   Aksoy, Sercan ^a,b   Engin, Hüseyin ^a,b   Tokgözoǧlu, Lale ^a,b   Oto, Ali ^a,b  

^a School of Medicine ^*

^b HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c Ziraat Mah   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHAMBUTOL; ISONIAZID; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART TUBERCULOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MYCOBACTERIOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THORACOTOMY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; TUBERCULOSIS, CARDIOVASCULAR;

EID: 0036631967     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mje.2002.119846     Document Type: Article

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