Echocardiography in Cryptogenic Cerebrospinal Abscess

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 401-403

  Mahadevan, Gnanadevan ^a   Thorne, Sara Angela ^a   Steeds, Richard Paul ^a  

^a QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL CIRCULATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN ABSCESS; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CRYPTOGENIC CEREBROSPINAL ABSCESS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PREVALENCE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VALSALVA MANEUVER;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ABSCESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 41249090960     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2007.06.012     Document Type: Article

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