Detection of Phrenic Nerves and Their Relation to Cardiac Anatomy Using 64-Slice Multidetector Computed Tomography

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 133-137

  Matsumoto, Yuji ^a   Krishnan, Subramaniam ^a   Fowler, Steven J ^a   Saremi, Farhood ^b   Kondo, Takeshi ^c   Ahsan, Chowdhury ^a   Narula, Jagat ^a   Gurudevan, Swaminatha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Takase Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; HEART; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VEIN; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VEIN;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHRENIC NERVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250713937     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2007.01.072     Document Type: Article

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