Left atrial appendage thrombi in stroke patients: Detection with two-phase cardiac CT angiography versus transesophageal echocardiography

Radiology

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 683-690

  Hur, Jin ^a   Young, Jin Kim ^a   Lee, Hye Jeong ^a   Ha, Jong Won ^a   Ji, Hoe Heo ^b   Choi, Eui Young ^a   Shim, Chi Young ^a   Tae, Hoon Kim ^a   Ji, Eun Nam ^a   Kyu, Ok Choe ^a   Byoung, Wook Choi ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARD; STROKE; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67049146759     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2513090794     Document Type: Article

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