Detection of pannus by multidetector-row computed tomography

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1631-1633

  Teshima, Hideki ^a   Hayashida, Nobuhiko ^a   Enomoto, Naofumi ^a   Aoyagi, Shigeaki ^a   Okuda, Koji ^a   Uchida, Masafumi ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; OBSERVATION; PANNUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REOPERATION; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA SINUS; AORTA VALVE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; SINUS OF VALSALVA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037406430     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04772-0     Document Type: Article

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