Feasibility and accuracy of a rapid evaluation of abdominal aorta during transthoracic echocardiographic examination;Comunicazione rapida: Fattibilità ed accuratezza di una rapida valutazione dell'aorta addominale durante l'esame ecocardiografico transtoracico

Italian Heart Journal, Supplementi

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 332-336

  Giaconi, Stefano ^a   Lattanzi, Fabio ^a   Orsini, Enrico ^a   Prosperi, Rossella ^b   Tartarini, Giuseppe ^a  

^a Zona Valdera Presidio Ospedaliero F Lotti   (Italy)

^b AUSL 5   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aortic aneurysm; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84949121006     PISSN: 15903796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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