Spectrum of collateral findings in multislice CT coronary angiography;Spettro dei reperti collaterali in TC multistrato delle coronarie

Radiologia Medica

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 937-948

  Cademartiri, F ^a,b   Malago R ^b,c   Belgrano, M ^b,d   Alberghina, F ^b,e   Maffei, E ^a   La Grutta, L ^b,e   Palumbo, A A ^a,b   Runza, G ^b,e   Mollet, N R ^b   Midiri, M ^b,e   Krestin, G P ^b   Mucelli, R Pozzi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Collateral findings; Incidental findings; Multislice CT Coronary Angiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 35848950239     PISSN: 00338362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11547-007-0194-9     Document Type: Article

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