MDCT detection of congenital absence of the left circumflex artery associated with atherosclerotic coronary artery disease

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 408-409

  Sato, Yuichi ^a   Matsumoto, Naoya ^a   Ichikawa, Makoto ^a   Nakanishi, Kanae ^a   Yoda, Shunicni ^a   Kunimoto, Satoshi ^a   Kasamaki, Yuji ^a   Takayama, Tadateru ^a   Komatsu, Sei ^b   Uchiyama, Takahisa ^a   Saito, Satoshi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congenital absence of circumflex coronary artery; Coronary angioscopy; Intravascular ultrasound; MDCT

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33750725387     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2005.09.045     Document Type: Article

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