Aberrant Coronary Arteries: A Reliable Echocardiographic Screening Method

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 756-763

  Jureidini, Saadeh B ^a   Marino, Cynthia J ^b   Singh, Gautam K ^b   Balfour, Ian C ^b   Rao, P Syamasundar ^b   Chen, Su Chiung ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AORTA SINUS; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EVALUATION; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SYSTEM; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MORTALITY; RELIABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TECHNIQUE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CORONARY VESSEL MALFORMATION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0141974323     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0894-7317(03)00321-3     Document Type: Article

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