Lambl's excrescences: Review and recommendations

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 366-368

  Aziz, Faisal ^a   Baciewicz Jr , Frank A ^b  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Aortic valve surgery; Echocardiography, transesophageal; Fibroma surgery ultrasonography; Heart neoplasms complications surgery ultrasonography; Heart valve diseases; Lambl's excrescences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA SURGERY; AORTA THROMBOSIS; AORTA VALVE; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARDIOMEGALY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LAMBL EXCRESCENCES; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; STROKE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTIC VALVE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CONFUSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 35848960318     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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