Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 23, Issue 7 , Pages 722-725 , July 2010

How Can We Best Image Congenital Heart Defects? Are Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Competitive or Complementary?

  • Shuping Ge, MD

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Shuping Ge, MD, Section of Cardiology/Heart Center for Children, Drexel University College of Medicine/St Christopher's Hospital for Children, 3601 A Street, Philadelphia, PA 19134.

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 Dr Ge is supported by Scientist Development Award 0435319N from the American Heart Association (Dallas, Texas).

PII: S0894-7317(10)00455-4

doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2010.05.018

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography
Volume 23, Issue 7 , Pages 722-725 , July 2010

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