Carotid intima-media thickness in patients with isolated coronary artery ectasia

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 385-387

  Çelik, Şükrü ^a   Erdoǧan, Turan ^a   Kasap, Hasan ^a   Kaplan, Şahin ^a   Durmuş, Ismet ^a   Gedik, Ömer ^a   Kiriş, Abdulkadir ^a  

^a KTU Faculty of Medicine   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid artery intima media thickness; Coronary artery ectasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ECTASIA; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CAROTID ARTERIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 33846098718     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2006.02.015     Document Type: Article

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