Limitations of current nomograms in pediatric echocardiography: Just the tip of the iceberg - A call for standardization

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 339-

  Cantinotti, Massimiliano ^a   Assanta, Nadia ^a   Crocetti, Maura ^a   Marotta, Marco ^a   Murzi, Bruno ^a   Iervasi, Giorgio ^a,b  

^a Fondazione G Monasterio CNR Regione Toscana   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF CLINICAL PHYSIOLOGY   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART LEFT RIGHT SHUNT; HUMAN; LETTER; NOMOGRAM; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ALGORITHMS; AORTIC VALVE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; MALE; MITRAL VALVE;

EID: 84896700131     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2013.12.002     Document Type: Letter

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