Diagnosis and treatment of cardiac myxomas by transesophageal echocardiography

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1419-1421

  Pérez de Isla, Leopoldo ^a,b   De Castro, Ramón ^a,b   Zamorano, José Luis ^a,b   Almería, Carlos ^a,b   Moreno, Raúl ^a,b   Moreno, Mar ^a,b   Lima, Pedro ^a,b   García Fernández, Miguel Angel ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO GREGORIO MARAÑÓN   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037114787     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(02)02891-6     Document Type: Article

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