Double-layered calcification with interspacial pericardial effusion in a patient with pericarditis constrictiva calcarea detected by multislice computed tomography [4]

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 96, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 299-300

  Butz, Thomas ^a   Langer, Christoph ^a   Faber, Lothar ^a   Körfer, Reiner ^a   Horstkotte, Dieter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LETTER; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIECTOMY; PERICARDIUM; THICKNESS;

CALCINOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS, CONSTRICTIVE; PERICARDIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34248387636     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-007-0506-z     Document Type: Letter

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