Cardiac computed tomography compared to transthoracic echocardiography in the management of congenital heart disease

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 441-449

  Beier, Ulf H ^a   Jelnin, Vladimir ^a   Jain, Supriya ^a   Ruiz, Carlos E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac CT; Congenital heart disease; Electron beam CT; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENOUS RETURN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33748313093     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20817     Document Type: Article

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