Three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiographic demonstration of innominate artery dissection

Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 569-571

  Nekkanti, Rajasekhar ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b   Ahmed, Sujood ^a   Chen, Jian Guo ^a   McGiffin, David C ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic dissection; Innominate artery dissection; Three dimensional transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0042665706     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.03098.x     Document Type: Article

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