Anomalous coronary arteries in adults detected by multislice computed tomography: Presentation of cases from multicenter registry and review of the literature

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-34

  Komatsu, Sei ^a   Sato, Yuichi ^b   Ichikawa, Makoto ^b   Kunimasa, Taeko ^c   Ito, Shingo ^c   Takagi, Takuro ^c   Lee, Tetsuo ^c   Matsumoto, Naoya ^b   Takayama, Tadateru ^b   Ichikawa, Miroru ^d   Hirayama, Atsushi ^a   Mishima, Masayoshi ^d   Saito, Satoshi ^b   Kodama, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Toshiba Hospital   (Japan)

^d KAWACHI GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anomalous coronary artery; Multislice computed tomography

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY FISTULA; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 39449125230     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-007-1005-x     Document Type: Article

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