Portable ultrasound machines. A new era for the clinical cardiologist;Cardioscopi portatili. Una nuova era per il cardiologo clinico

Italian Heart Journal, Supplementi

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 533-541

  Badano, Luigi P ^a   Salustri, Alessandro ^b   Oikonomou, Kostas A ^a   Fioretti, Paolo M ^a  

^a Struttura Operativa Complessa di Neuroradiologia   (Italy)

^b UO di Cardiologia   (Italy)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Management in cardiology

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; CARDIOLOGY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; REVIEW;

AMBULATORY CARE; CARDIOLOGY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 77957138163     PISSN: 15903796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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