Extracardiac Findings: What Is a Cardiologist to Do?

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 682-687

  Douglas, Pamela S ^a   Cerqueria, Manuel ^b   Rubin, Geoffrey D ^c   Chin, Anne Shu Lei ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

extracardiac findings; imaging fellowship training; incidental findings; multimodality imager; over reading images

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CURRICULUM; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS;

EID: 51649107338     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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