Accuracy of transthoracic echocardiography for the measurement of the ascending aorta: Comparison with transesophageal echocardiography

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 502-507

  Kabirdas, Deepa ^a   Scridon, Cristiana ^a   Brenes, Juan Carlos ^a   Hernandez, Adrian V ^b   Novaro, Gian M ^a   Asher, Craig R ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF COLORECTAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 77956000635     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20807     Document Type: Article

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