Angiocardiography in the diagnosis of congenital heart disease.
Despite tremendous advances in cardiac imaging technology, there still exists an important role for the performance of angiocardiography in children with congenital heart disease. This article contains an outline describing the facilities in which the examinations are performed, how the examination is performed, and, most importantly, the basic tenets of interpretation.
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Department of Radiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York.
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Katz
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