Myocardial bridge: Evaluation on MDCT

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1069-1073

  Zeina, Abdel Rauf ^a,b   Odeh, Majed ^a,b   Blinder, Jorge ^c   Rosenschein, Uri ^a,b   Barmeir, Elisha ^a,b  

^a BNAI ZION MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c BIKUR CHOLIM HOSPITAL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Coronary anomalies; Coronary CT angiography; Intramyocardial coronary arterial segment; Myocardial bridge; Tunneled segment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

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

EID: 33947623136     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.06.0714     Document Type: Article

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