Sonographic confirmation of the association between calcified cerebral emboli and mitral annular calcification

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1507-1510

  Konishi Yakushiji, Mai ^a   Yakushiji, Yusuke ^a   Kotooka, Norihiko ^a   Okajima, Yuka ^a   Noguchi, Tomoyuki ^a   Hara, Hideo ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CALCINOSIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG COMBINATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MITRAL VALVE; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE;

AGED; BRAIN; CALCINOSIS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MITRAL VALVE; RECURRENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77958175943     PISSN: 02784297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7863/jum.2010.29.10.1507     Document Type: Article

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