Transesophageal Echocardiography or Fluoroscopy during Port-Access Surgery?

Annals of the Academy of Medicine Singapore

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 520-524

  Mierdl, S ^c   Meininger, D ^c   Byhahn, C ^c   Aybek, T ^a   Kessler, P ^c   Westphal, Klaus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b Katharina Kasper Klinken   (Germany)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036635188     PISSN: 03044602     EISSN: 29724066     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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