Editorial: A better echocardiographic view to aortic dissection

European Heart Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 398-400

  Jánosi, Rolf Alexander ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA DISSECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; HEART CYCLE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; MORTALITY; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THROMBOGENESIS; THROMBUS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ACUTE DISEASE; AORTA ANEURYSM; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; ECHOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; NOTE;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS;

EID: 77249138724     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp404     Document Type: Editorial

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