Echocardiography or ultrasound template

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Charmaine Patel, M.D. [2]

Introduction to the Echocardiography or Ultrasound Page

The page name should be "(Disease name) Echocardiography" or "(Disease name) Ultrasound", with only the first letter of the title capitalized.
Goal: To provide a description o fall the applicable echocardiography and ultrasound tests related to the disease you are describing.
As with all microchapter pages linking to the main page, at the top of the edit box put {{CMG}}, your name template, and the microchapter navigation template you created at the beginning.
Remember to create links within Wikidoc by placing [[square brackets]] around key words which you want to link to other pages. For more information on how to create links click here.
Remember to follow the same format and capitalization of letters as outlined in the template below.
You should include the name of the disease in the first sentence of every subsection.

The overview section should include the disease name in the first sentence.
The goal is to summarize the echocardiography or ultrasound findings page in several sentences. This section can be the same as the echocardiography and ultrasound segment on the overview page.
To see an example of an overview section on a echocardiography page page, click here.

There are no ultrasound findings associated with [disease name].

OR

On [location] ultrasound, [disease name] is characterized by [ultrasound finding 1], [ultrasound finding 2], [ultrasound finding 3].

Example 1: There are no ultrasound findings associated with knee osteoarthritis.

Example 2: On echocardiogram, acute pericarditis is characterized by pericardial effusion.

Describe in detail the echocardiography or ultrasound findings that may be seen in the disease you are describing, as well as in sub-classifications of the disease, and associated conditions.
Describe how the echocardiography and ultrasound findings relate to the underlying pathophysiology of the disease.

Here you should provide visual examples of echocardiography or ultrasound findings for the disease you are describing.
Good copyleft source to use for images is RadsWiki (http://www.radswiki.net/main/index.php?title=Main_Page), National Library of Medicine (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/), Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.org), or Wiki Echo (http://www.wikiecho.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page).
For help on how to insert images, click here.

References should be cited for the material that you have put on your page. Type in {{reflist|2}}.This will generate your references in small font, in two columns, with links to the original article and abstract.
For information on how to add references into your page, click here.