Arterial supply to sinuatrial and atrioventricular nodes: Imaging with multidetector CT

Radiology

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 99-107

  Saremi, Farhood ^a   Abolhoda, Amir ^a   Ashikyan, Oganes ^a   Milliken, Jeffrey C ^a   Narula, Jagat ^b   Gurudevan, Swaminatha V ^b   Kaushal, Khushboo ^a   Raney, Aidan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINUS NODE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIES; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINOATRIAL NODE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37349011496     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2461070030     Document Type: Article

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