Intracardiac needle in a 12-year-old girl with self-injurious behaviour

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 209-210

  Mihmanli, Ismail ^a   Kurugoglu, Sebuh ^a   Kantarci, Fatih ^a   Atakir, Kadir ^a   Akman, Canan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMUTILATION; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HUMAN; NEEDLE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STERNUM; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOGENESIS;

CHILD; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MANUBRIUM; NEEDLES; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036952316     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-001-0611-5     Document Type: Article

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