Acute myocardial infarction entailing ST-segment elevation in lead aVL: Electrocardiographic differentiation among occlusion of the left anterior descending, first diagonal, and first obtuse marginal coronary arteries

American Heart Journal

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 38-42

  Birnbaum, Yochai ^b   Hasdai, David ^b   Sclarovsky, Samuel ^a   Herz, Izhak ^b   Strasberg, Boris ^b   Rechavia, Eldad ^b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION;

EID: 0030052622     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(96)90048-4     Document Type: Article

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