The role of transesophageal echocardiography in rapid diagnosis and treatment of migratory tumor embolus

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 357-359

  Chen, Hsiupei ^a,c   Ng, Victor ^b   Kane, Christopher J ^b   Russell, Isobel A ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Duke Pain and Palliative Care Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANATOMY; ARTERIOTOMY; ARTICLE; CANCER INVASION; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; SURGICAL APPROACH; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TUMOR EMBOLISM;

EID: 3242775351     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ANE.0000133001.42742.49     Document Type: Article

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