Multichamber gunshot wounds of the heart. The utility of transesophageal echocardiography.
A patient had a gunshot wound to the heart involving three cardiac chambers. Conventional echocardiography failed to identify the intracardiac injuries. The utility of transesophageal echocardiography in a patient with cardiac trauma is described.
Brathwaite
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Department of Surgery, UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden.
Weiss
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Baldino
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Hoganson
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Ross
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D000328:Adult; D004452:Echocardiography; D006335:Heart Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014948:Wounds, Gunshot / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*