Topographic analysis of the coronary sinus and major cardiac veins by computed tomography

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 694-699

  Lemola, Kristina ^a   Mueller, Gisela ^a   Desjardins, Benoit ^a   Sneider, Michael ^a   Case, Ian ^a   Good, Eric ^a   Han, Jihn ^a   Tamirisa, Kamala ^a   Tschopp, David ^a   Reich, Scott ^a   Igic, Petar ^a   Elmouchi, Darryl ^a   Chugh, Aman ^a   Bogun, Frank ^a   Pelosi Jr , Frank ^a   Kazerooni, Ella A ^a   Morady, Fred ^a   Oral, Hakan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Coronary sinus; Esophagus; Left radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST RADIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPID STORAGE; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VEIN WALL; VENOUS CIRCULATION;

ADULT; AORTIC ANEURYSM, THORACIC; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 21344451865     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2005.04.016     Document Type: Article

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