Science to practice: What is the value of measuring coronary artery calcification?

Radiology

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-2

  Wexler, Lewis ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGATSTON SCRORE; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SHORT SURVEY; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; RADIOGRAPHY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

CALCINOSIS; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38449089502     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2461071333     Document Type: Short Survey

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