Value of electron-beam computed tomography for the noninvasive detection of high-grade coronary-artery stenoses and occlusions

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 339, Issue 27, 1998, Pages 1964-1971

  Achenbach, Stephan ^a,b   Moshage, Werner ^a   Ropers, Dieter ^a   Nossen, Jörg ^a   Daniel, Werner G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRON BEAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032585560     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199812313392702     Document Type: Article

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