Imaging the Forgotten Chamber: Is the Devil in the Boundary?

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 141-143

  Mor Avi, Victor ^a   Sugeng, Lissa ^a   Lindner, Jonathan R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EDITORIAL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SIZE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE VOLUME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75749090820     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2009.12.021     Document Type: Editorial

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