Pericardial disease: Value of CT and MR imaging

Radiology

Volumn 267, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 340-356

  Bogaert, Jan ^a   Francone, Marco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART FUNCTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; LUNG ADENOCARCINOMA; MALIGNANT PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; MESOTHELIOMA; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIAL PSEUDO MASS; PERICARDIUM; PERICARDIUM CYST; PERICARDIUM DIVERTICULUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIUM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84876930325     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.13121059     Document Type: Review

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