Review of CT Angiography of Aorta

Radiologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 461-483

  Yu, Tongfu ^a   Zhu, Xiaomei ^a   Tang, Lijun ^a   Wang, Dehang ^a   Saad, Nael ^b  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANATOMY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; AORTA ARCH INTERRUPTION; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA STENOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; ENDOLEAK; FALSE ANEURYSM; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; MIGRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AORTIC DISEASES; AORTOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 34250763804     PISSN: 00338389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rcl.2007.04.010     Document Type: Review

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