Forty-year-old intrathoracic gossypiboma after cardiac valve surgery

Circulation

Volumn 119, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 3142-3143

  Szarf, Gilberto ^a,b,c   Mussi De Andrade, Thais Caldara ^c   Nakano, Edson ^b   Szjenfeld, Denis ^b   Costa, Altair Silva ^d   Rymkiewicz, Erica ^d   De Oliveira, Renato ^d   Ajzen, Sergio Aron ^c   Leao, Luiz Eduardo Villaca ^d   Lederman, Henrique M ^c  

^a Thoracic Magnetic Resonance Imaging   (Brazil)

^b Unit of Magnetic Resonance Imaging   (Brazil)

^c Department of Radiology ^*  (Brazil)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOREIGN BODY; GAUZE DRESSING; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; INTRATHORACIC GOSSYPIBOMA; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PLEURA CAVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

CALCINOSIS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CYSTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HEART VALVES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 67649535352     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.849794     Document Type: Article

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