Diagnostic yield of echocardiography in cancer patients with ischemic stroke
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Evaluation of transesophageal echocardiography in detecting cardiac sources of emboli in ischemic stroke patients
Background: Embolus is one of the causes of ischemic stroke that can be due to cardiac sources such as valvular heart diseases and atrial fibrillation and atheroma of the aorta. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is superior in identifying potential cardiac sources of emboli. Due to insufficient data on TEE findings in ischemic stroke in Iran, the present study was done to evaluate TEE in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neuro-Oncology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0167-594X,1573-7373
DOI: 10.1007/s11060-015-1768-3