Use of intraoperative epiaortic ultrasonography to delineate aortic atheroma

Chest

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 60-65

  Bolotin, Gil ^a,c   Domany, Yoav ^b   De Perini, Lorenza ^a   Frolkis, Inna ^a   Lev Ran, Oren ^a   Nesher, Nahum ^a   Uretzky, Gideon ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cerebrovascular accident; Coronary artery bypass; Epiaortic ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ATHEROMA; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PALPATION; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISEASE; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AORTIC DISEASES; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 13844309850     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.127.1.60     Document Type: Article

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