Transthoracic echocardiography is not useful in the routine investigation of ischaemic stroke or TIA

Irish Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Murphy, S M ^a   McIntyre, D ^b   McAdam, B ^b   Moroney, J T ^b  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; LETTER; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 51249099259     PISSN: 03323102     EISSN: 03323102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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