Adult cor triatriatum presenting as cardioembolic stroke

Internal Medicine

Volumn 48, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1149-1152

  Park, Kyung Jun ^a   Park, Il Kwon ^a   Sir, Jung Ju ^a   Kim, Hyun Tae ^a   Park, Young Il ^a   Tsung, Pei Chuan ^a   Chung, Jae Myun ^a   Park, Kyung Il ^a   Cho, Wook Hyun ^a   Choi, Suk Koo ^a  

^a Inje University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Cerebral infarct; Congenital heart disease; Cor triatriatum; Embolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; COR TRIATRIATUM; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COR TRIATRIATUM; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 67650693984     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.48.2148     Document Type: Article

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