Chest pain evaluation in the emergency department: Can MDCT provide a comprehensive evaluation?

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 185, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 533-540

  White, Charles S ^a   Kuo, Dick ^a   Kelemen, Mark ^a   Jain, Vineet ^a   Musk, Amy ^a   Zaidi, Eram ^a   Read, Katrina ^a   Sliker, Clint ^a   Prasad, Rajnish ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DEMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GATED IMAGING; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN; ACUTE DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEST PAIN; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 25644441772     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.185.2.01850533     Document Type: Article

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