Assessment of congenital coronary artery fistulas by transesophageal color Doppler echocardiography

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 127-133

  Vitarelli, Antonio ^a   De Curtis, Guglielmo ^b   Conde, Ysabel ^a   Colantonio, Mario ^c   Di Benedetto, Giulia ^a   Pecce, Piero ^b   De Nardo, Luigi ^d   Squillaci, Ettore ^d  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^c SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d SAN FILIPPO NERI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL DISORDER; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY FISTULA; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERIO-ARTERIAL FISTULA; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0037159550     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(02)01157-9     Document Type: Article

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