Impact of coronary calcium score on diagnostic accuracy of multislice computed tomography coronary angiography for detection of coronary artery disease

Journal of Nuclear Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 36-43

  Pundziute, Gabija ^a,b   Schuijf, Joanne D ^a,c   Jukema, J Wouter ^a,c   Lamb, Hildo J ^a   de Roos, Albert ^a   van der Wall, Ernst E ^a,c   Bax, Jeroen J ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b KAUNAS UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Lithuania)

^c ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

coronary calcium score; diagnostic accuracy; Multislice computed tomography

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; IOBITRIDOL; IOMEPROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846621035     PISSN: 10713581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nuclcard.2006.11.002     Document Type: Article

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