Coronary calcification compared in patients with acute versus in those with chronic coronary events by using dual-sector spiral CT

Radiology

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 483-488

  Shemesh, Joseph ^a   Apter, Sara ^a   Itzchak, Yacov ^a   Motro, Michael ^a  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coronary vessels, calcification; Coronary vessels, CT; Coronary vessels, diseases; Heart, diseases

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; SUDDEN DEATH; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 0037294221     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2262011903     Document Type: Article

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