Coronary artery anomalies: What we know and what we have to learn. A proposal for a new clinical classification

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 305-310

  Rigatelli, Gianluca ^a,b   Rigatelli, Giorgio ^a  

^a Mater Salutis Hospital of Legnago   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Coronary angiography; Coronary artery disease

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT CARE;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; HUMANS;

EID: 0242331259     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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