Diagnostic accuracy of cardiac 64-slice computed tomography in detecting atrial thrombi: Comparative study with transesophageal echocardiography and cardiac surgery

Investigative Radiology

Volumn 43, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 794-801

  Feuchtner, Gudrun M ^a   Dichtl, Wolfgang ^a   Bonatti, Johannes O ^a   Jodocy, Daniel ^a   Müller, Silvana ^a   Hintringer, Florian ^a   Gradl, Johannes ^a   Klauser, Andrea ^a   Cury, Ricardo C ^b  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac multidetector computed tomography; CT; Echocardiography; Left atrial thrombi; MDCT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 58149316317     PISSN: 00209996     EISSN: 15360210     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/RLI.0b013e318184cd6c     Document Type: Article

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