Cardiac multidetector computed tomography in infective endocarditis: a pictorial essay
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Cardiac multidetector computed tomography in infective endocarditis: a pictorial essay
OBJECTIVES The goals of this pictorial essay are: (1) to set out a multislice computed tomography (MSCT) imaging protocol to assess infective endocarditis (IE); (2) to give an MSCT overview of valvular and peri-valvular involvement during IE; (3) to give a CT overview of septic embolism and infectious pseudoaneurysms during IE. METHODS MSCT acquisition protocols to assess IE are performed in ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Insights into Imaging
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1869-4101
DOI: 10.1007/s13244-014-0353-1