Ultrasound attenuation behind coronary atheroma without calcification: Mechanism revealed by autopsy

Acute Cardiac Care

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 110-112

  Hara, Hisao ^a   Tsunoda, Taro ^a   Moroi, Masao ^a   Kubota, Tetsuya ^a   Kunimasa, Taeko ^a   Shiba, Masanori ^a   Wada, Masamichi ^a   Tsuji, Takahiro ^a   Iijima, Raisuke ^a   Nakajima, Rintaro ^a   Yoshitama, Takashi ^a   Nakamura, Masato ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OHASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intravascular ultrasound; Pathology

Indexed keywords

LIPID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROMA; AUTOPSY; CALCIFICATION; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ATHEROMA; DISPERSION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33745829786     PISSN: 17482941     EISSN: 1748295X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14628840600637781     Document Type: Article

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