Evaluation of ascending aortic atherosclerosis with 16-multidetector computed tomography is useful before total endoscopic coronary bypass surgery

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 262-266

  Feuchtner, Gudrun Maria ^a   Schachner, Thomas ^a   Bonaros, Nikolaos ^a   Smekal, Alexander ^a   Mallouhi, Ammar ^a   Friedrich, Guy J ^a   Deutschmann, Martin ^b   Laufer, Guenther ^a   zur Nedden, Dieter ^a   Bonatti, Johannes ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b SIEMENS AG ÖSTERREICH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA BALLOON; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GATED IMAGING; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; AORTA; AORTA DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIOGRAPHY; ROBOTICS;

AORTA; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; ROBOTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750534596     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20051103     Document Type: Article

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