Myocardial cleft, crypt, diverticulum, or aneurysm? Does it really matter?

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Afonso, Luis ^a   Kottam, Anupama ^a   Khetarpal, Vipin ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DIVERTICULOSIS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CLEFT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIVERTICULUM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; MYOCARDIUM; STROKE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 69249120505     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20466     Document Type: Article

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