Prevalence of anatomical variants and coronary anomalies in 543 consecutive patients studied with 64-slice CT coronary angiography

European Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 781-791

  Cademartiri, Filippo ^a,b   La Grutta, Ludovico ^b,c   Malagò, Roberto ^b,d   Alberghina, Filippo ^c   Meijboom, Willem B ^b   Pugliese, Francesca ^b   Maffei, Erica ^a   Palumbo, Anselmo Alessandro ^a,b   Aldrovandi, Annachiara ^a   Fusaro, Michele ^a   Brambilla, Valerio ^e   Coruzzi, Paolo ^e   Midiri, Massimo ^c   Mollet, Nico R A ^b   Krestin, Gabriel P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^e IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anatomical variants; Anomalies; Coronary artery circulation; Multislice computed tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY FISTULA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINUS NODE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IOPAMIDOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 41549141724     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-007-0821-9     Document Type: Article

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