Current incidence of peripheral arterial embolism and role of echocardiography

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 439-443

  Tofigh, Arash Mohammadi ^a   Karvandi, Mersedeh ^a   Coscas, Raphaël ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARM DISEASE; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INCIDENCE; LEG ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 58249105144     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230801600602     Document Type: Article

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