Editorial: Intracardiac fibroelastomas in echocardiography

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 308-311

  Piper, Cornelia ^a   Kleikamp, Georg ^a   Hort, Waldemar ^b   Horstkotte, Dieter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOMYOPATHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; ENDOCARDIAL FIBROELASTOSIS; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CARDIOMYOPATHIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOCARDIAL FIBROELASTOSIS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

EID: 33750702197     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Editorial

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