Multi-Detector Row CT of the Left Atrium and Pulmonary Veins before Radio-frequency Catheter Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation: Invited Commentary

Radiographics

Volumn 23, Issue SPEC. ISS, 2003, Pages

  Woodard, Pamela K ^a   Lacomis, Joan M ^b   Fuhrman, Carl R ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RADIOLOGIST; SURGICAL ANATOMY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 0347416961     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.23si035517     Document Type: Note

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