Coronary artery disease: Arterial remodelling and clinical presentation

Heart

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 461-464

  Smits, P C ^a,b   Pasterkamp, G ^a   Quarles Van Ufford, M A ^c   Eefting, F D ^a   Stella, P R ^a   De Jaegere, P P T ^a   Borst, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary disease; Intravascular ultrasound; Remodelling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CALCULATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 0032868451     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.82.4.461     Document Type: Article

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