Transesophageal two-dimensional echocardiographic identification of hiatal hernia

Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 533-535

  Frans, Ebenezer E ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^a,b   Patel, Vinod ^a   Vengala, Srinivas ^a   Mehmood, Farhat ^a   Fonbah, William S ^a   Bodiwala, Kunal ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Hiatal hernia; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DESCENDING AORTA; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MICROBUBBLE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH MUCOSA; THICKNESS; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUMOR VOLUME; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HERNIA, HIATAL; HUMANS;

EID: 21644467297     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2005.50017.x     Document Type: Article

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