Papillary fibroelastoma and Lambl's excrescences: Echocardiographic diagnosis and differential diagnosis

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 285-287

  Daveron, Eleanor ^a   Jain, Neeraj ^a   Kelley, Glenn P ^a   Luer, William H ^b   Fermin, Cesar ^b   Helmcke, Frederick ^a   Kerut, Edmund K ^c,d,e  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d HEART CLINIC OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Lambl's excrescences; Papillary fibroelastoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FIBROELASTOMA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART PAPILLARY MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FIBROMA; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE;

EID: 14844300162     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2005.40004.x     Document Type: Article

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