Calcifications of the heart

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 603-617

  Gowda, Ramesh M ^a,b   Boxt, Lawrence M ^a,c  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA; AORTA ARCH; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD VESSEL CALCIFICATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; FIBROMA; FLUOROSCOPY; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HEART ATRIUM MYXOMA; HEART BLOOD VESSEL; HEART INFARCTION; HEART METASTASIS; HEART VENTRICLE ANEURYSM; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY DISEASE; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOMA; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; TUMOR CALCINOSIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

CALCINOSIS; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 2942552394     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2004.03.010     Document Type: Review

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