Mean platelet volume in patients with coronary artery ectasia

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Sen, Nihat ^a   Tavil, Yusuf ^a,b   Yazici, Hüseyin Uǧur ^a   Hizal, Fatma ^a   Açikgöz, Sadik Kadri ^a   Abaci, Adnan ^a   Çengel, Atiye ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary artery ectasia; Mean platelet volume; Platelet function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ECTASIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; STENOSIS; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME; VASODILATATION;

ADULT; AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD PLATELETS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET ACTIVATION;

EID: 34548415462     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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