Detection of left atrial appendage thrombus by spiral CT scan

Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 99-100

  Alam, Golam ^a   Addo, Frank ^a   Malik, Mahr ^a   Levinsky, Richard ^a   Lieb, David ^a  

^a MICHAEL REESE HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKINESIA; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 12244261652     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2003.00016.x     Document Type: Article

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