Acute hypercalcemia of the heart ("Bony Heart")

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 407-411

  Kloeppel, Rainer ^a   Luebke, Peter ^a   Mittag, Matthias ^a   Achenbach, Harald ^a   Stephan, Susann ^a   Kluge, Regine ^a   Lenzner, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Heart, calcification; Hyperparathyroidism; Kidneys, failure; Parathyroid glands, diseases

Indexed keywords

BIOMINERALIZATION; BONE; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; NUCLEAR MEDICINE;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HAEMODIALYSIS; HEART FAILURE; HEART, CALCIFICATION; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; KIDNEY, FAILURE; MALIGNANT PROGRESSION; MICROSCOPIC IMAGE; PARATHYROID GLAND, DISEASE;

HEART;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035014177     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200105000-00013     Document Type: Article

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