MDCT of the S-shaped sinoatrial node artery

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 190, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1569-1575

  Saremi, Farhood ^a   Channual, Stephanie ^a   Abolhoda, Amir ^a   Gurudevan, Swaminatha V ^b   Narula, Jagat ^b   Milliken, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Coronary artery; Coronary CT angiography; Left atrium; Sinoatrial node artery

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; IOHEXOL; METOPROLOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SINOATRIUM NODE ARTERY; SINUS NODE; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINOATRIAL NODE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 44849090575     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3127     Document Type: Article

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