Myocardial bridging: Depiction rate and morphology at CT coronary angiography - Comparison with conventional coronary angiography

Radiology

Volumn 246, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 754-762

  Leschka, Sebastian ^a   Koepfli, Pascal ^a   Husmann, Lars ^a   Plass, André ^a   Vachenauer, Robert ^a   Gaemperli, Oliver ^a   Schepis, Tiziano ^a   Genoni, Michele ^a   Marincek, Borut ^a   Eberli, Franz R ^a   Kaufmann, Philipp A ^a,b   Alkadhi, Hatem ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVENTIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MYOCARDIAL BRIDGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANK SUM TEST; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL MALFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 40949133314     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2463062071     Document Type: Article

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