Noninvasive Assessment of Plaque Morphology and Composition in Culprit and Stable Lesions in Acute Coronary Syndrome and Stable Lesions in Stable Angina by Multidetector Computed Tomography

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1655-1662

  Hoffmann, Udo ^a   Moselewski, Fabian ^a   Nieman, Koen ^a   Jang, Ik Kyung ^a   Ferencik, Maros ^a   Rahman, Ayaz M ^a   Cury, Ricardo C ^a   Abbara, Suhny ^a   Joneidi Jafari, Hamid ^a   Achenbach, Stephan ^a,b   Brady, Thomas J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENOSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33646047719     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.01.041     Document Type: Article

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