Value of transesophageal 3D echocardiography as an adjunct to conventional 2D imaging in preoperative evaluation of cardiac masses

Echocardiography

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 624-631

  Müller, Silvana ^a,b   Feuchtner, Gertrud ^b   Bonatti, Johannes ^b   Müller, Ludwig ^b   Laufer, Günther ^a   Hiemetzberger, Renate ^a   Pachinger, Otmar ^a   Barbieri, Verena ^b   Bartel, Thomas ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cardiac masses; Echocardiography; Three dimensional echocardiography; Transesophageal

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FIBROELASTOMA; HEART CARCINOMA; HEART TUMOR; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LIPOMA; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MITRAL VALVE; MYXOMA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHABDOMYOSARCOMA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 45749137983     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00664.x     Document Type: Article

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