Atrial myxomas and thrombi: Comparison of imaging features on CT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 192, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 639-645

  Scheffel, Hans ^a   Baumueller, Stephan ^a   Stolzmann, Paul ^a   Leschka, Sebastian ^a   Plass, Andre ^a   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a   Schertler, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cardiac myxomas; Cardiac thrombi; CT; Heart

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYXOMA; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 63049124350     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.1694     Document Type: Article

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