Size of Coronary Artery in a Myocardial Bridge Compared With Adjacent Nontunneled Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 99, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1653-1655

  Qian, Juying ^a,b   Zhang, Feng ^a,b   Wu, Hongyi ^a,b   Fan, Bing ^a,b   Ge, Lei ^a,b   Lu, Yan ^a   Ge, Junbo ^a,b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 34249900703     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.01.051     Document Type: Article

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