Pitfalls in the diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrabeculation/non- compaction

Postgraduate Medical Journal

Volumn 82, Issue 972, 2006, Pages 679-683

  Stollberger C ^a   Finsterer, J ^a  

^a KRANKENANSTALT RUDOLFSTIFTUNG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIAL FIBROELASTOSIS; FIBROMA; HEART ABSCESS; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART METASTASIS; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTRABECULATION; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; MYOCARDITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; RESTRICTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; REVIEW; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 33751202438     PISSN: 00325473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.2006.046169     Document Type: Review

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