Left anterior descending coronary artery wall thickness measured by high-frequency transthoracic and epicardial echocardiography includes adventitia

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 27-32

  Gradus Pizlo, Irmina ^a   Bigelow, Brian ^a   Mahomed, Yousuf ^a   Sawada, Stephen G ^a   Rieger, Karen ^a   Feigenbaum, Harvey ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVENTITIA; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTIMA; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 0037223447     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(02)02993-4     Document Type: Article

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