Clinical use of multislice spiral computed tomography in 210 highly preselected patients: Experience with 4 and 16 slice technology

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1423-1427

  Beck, T ^b   Burgstahler, C ^b   Kuettner, A ^b   Kopp, A F ^b   Heuschmid, M ^b   Claussen, C D ^b   Schroeder, Stephen ^a,b  

^a Division of Cardiology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TELEPHONE;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 27444439470     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2004.049817     Document Type: Article

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