Advances in transesophageal echocardiographic imaging

Minerva Cardioangiologica

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 185-193

  Ward, R P ^a,b   Lang, R M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac imaging; Esophagus; Heart diseases; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVERSION; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MECHANICAL PROBE; MORPHOLOGY; PATIENT CARE; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND;

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS;

EID: 33745376291     PISSN: 00264725     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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