TY - BOOK AU - Ahmed Ali Abdelhalim Mahmoud AU - Rania Zakaria Hassan Abuelezz , AU - Seif Eldin Abaza Abdulmonem , TI - Role of CT and MRI in diagnosis of pericardial diseases / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Ahmed Ali Abdelhalim Mahmoud , KW - ACCT KW - CMR KW - Pericardial N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Radio-diagnosis; Issued also as CD N2 - Trans-thoracic echocardiography should be the first modality to determine the hemodynamic significance of a pericardial effusion . Both CCT and CMR imaging are useful adjuncts to TTE in the characterization of a pericardial effusion and tamponade . They both play an important role in situations in which the hemodynamics are atypical and the presence and severity of tamponade are less certain ER -