Pericardium: Anatomy and spectrum of disease on computed tomography

Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 198-209

  Song, Hotaek ^a,b   Choi, Yo Won ^a,b,c   Jang, Il Soo ^a,b   Jeon, Seok Chol ^a,b   Park, Choong Ki ^a,b   Lee, In Sean ^a,b   Lee, Jin Seong ^a,b  

^a Hanyang University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Asan Medical Center   (South Korea)

^c Hanyang University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HEART TUMOR; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIPOMA; LUNG CARCINOMA; LUNG CYST; LYMPHOMA; METASTASIS; NEUROECTODERM TUMOR; NEUROFIBROMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOLOGY; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PERICARDIUM; PERICARDIUM CYST; PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA; PNEUMOPERICARDIUM; RADIOGRAPHY; TERATOMA; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036759906     PISSN: 03630188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mdr.2002.127635     Document Type: Article

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