True versus false left ventricular aneurysm: Differentiation with MR imaging - Initial experience

Radiology

Volumn 236, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-70

  Konen, Eli ^a,c   Merchant, Naeem ^a   Gutierrez, Carlos ^a   Provost, Yves ^a   Mickleborough, Linda ^b   Paul, Narinder S ^a   Butany, Jagdish ^a  

^a TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBUS;

AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, CINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 20744441975     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2361031699     Document Type: Article

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