Telecardiogram: still of matter in the modern cardiac imaging era?
The modern cardiovascular imaging era has seen the introduction in clinical practice of highly innovative and performing diagnostic features. The negative side of this outstanding evolution risks to be an under-assessment of well-established classical diagnostic techniques. Thereby, to support the actual relevance of a properly executed chest X-ray, this article describes two paradigmatic cases of exceptional cardiac abnormalities, in which X-rays played a key diagnostic role.
Anselmino
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Cardiology Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Turin, Turin, Italy. matt.ans@alice.it
Castagno
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Chirio
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Biondi-Zoccai
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Grimaldi
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Sheiban
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