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Ultrasound Stethoscopy

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Cardiac ultrasound has been one of the most important advances in noninvasive cardiac imaging and is currently the most widely used and cost-effective diagnostic imaging tool in cardiology.1 Since it is often the best or even the only applicable method, it has largely supplanted other imaging modalities in a wide variety of health care environments. Miniaturization and digital techniques recently resulted in the development of high-resolution battery-powered small hand-held ultrasound devices with excellent gray-scale and color blood-flow imaging capabilities.

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    Eleni C. Vourvouri & Jos R. T. C. Roelandt

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  1. Dept. Cardiology, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Road, London, W12 ONN, United Kingdom

    Petros Nihoyannopoulos

  2. Medical Center, Duke University, Erwin Road 2300-2399, Durham, 27710, U.S.A.

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Vourvouri, E.C., Roelandt, J.R.T.C. (2009). Ultrasound Stethoscopy. In: Nihoyannopoulos, P., Kisslo, J. (eds) Echocardiography. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-293-1_32

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