Prevalence of "high-riding" superior pericardial recesses on thin-section 16-MDCT scans

European Journal of Radiology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 265-269

  Basile, Antonio ^a   Bisceglie, Paola ^a   Giulietti, Giorgio ^a   Calcara, Giacomo ^a   Figuera, Michele ^b   Mundo, Elena ^a   Granata, Antonio ^b   Runza, Giuseppe ^c   Privitera, Carmelo ^b   Privitera, Giambattista ^a   Patti, Maria Teresa ^a  

^a Ospedale Ferrarotto   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anatomical variant; Cardiac imaging; Heart; Multidetector CT; Pericardial recess; Pericardium recess

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIANTS; CARDIAC IMAGING; HEART; MULTIDETECTOR CT; PERICARDIAL RECESSES; PERICARDIUM RECESS;

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; PATIENT MONITORING; PATIENT TREATMENT; SURGERY; TUMORS;

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPHOGRAPHY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIUM RECESS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33746185700     PISSN: 0720048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrad.2006.04.014     Document Type: Article

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