Use of electron-beam computed tomography in the evaluation of chest pain patients in the emergency department

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 15-21

  Laudon, D A ^a   Vukov, L F ^a   Breen, J F ^a   Rumberger, J A ^a   Wollan, P C ^a   Sheedy, P F ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEART ENZYME; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORAX PAIN; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

EID: 0032929287     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(99)70412-9     Document Type: Article

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