The role of echocardiography in diagnosing space-occupying lesions of the heart

Clinical Medicine and Research

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 22-32

  Ragland, Moluk Mirrasouli ^a   Tak, Tahir ^a  

^a University of North Texas Health Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac neoplasms; Diagnostic imaging; Echocardiography; lmaging; Magnetic resonance; Tomography

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSARCOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FIBROELASTOMA; FIBROMA; HEART MYXOMA; HEART TUMOR; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LIPOMA; LYMPHOMA; METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOMA; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646098911     PISSN: 15394182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3121/cmr.4.1.22     Document Type: Review

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