The Chest X-Ray in Congenital Heart Disease

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 208-220

  Perloff, Joseph K ^a  

^a AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION   (United States)

Author keywords

"To read chest x rays without knowledge of the pathologic anatomy or pathophysiology of congenital heart disease is akin to attempting to cross the English Channel after your first swimming lesson"; Chest x ray in congenital heart disease; Decreased pulmonary arterial vascularity feature of Fallot's tetralogy and double outlet right ventricle with pulmonary stenosis; Extrapulmonary soft tissue densities; Location of outlet chamber important radiologic feature of univentricular hearts; Seckel syndrome (microcephalic primordial dwarfism) phenotype in which 11 paired ribs are present; Sequence for reading chest x ray; Sophisticated high technology diagnostic methods and risk of de emphasizing time honored techniques; Systemic arterial collaterals features of Fallot's tetralogy with pulmonary atresia

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889795558     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444311846.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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