Right atrial cavotricuspid isthmus: Anatomic characterization with multi-detector row CT

Radiology

Volumn 247, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 658-668

  Saremi, Farhood ^a   Pourzand, Lila ^a   Krishnan, Subramaniam ^b   Ashikyan, Oganes ^a   Gurudevan, Swaminatha V ^b   Narula, Jagat ^b   Kaushal, Khushboo ^a   Raney, Aidan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; AUDITORY TUBE; CAVOTRICUSPID ISTHMUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRICUSPID VALVE; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTIFACT; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTIFACTS; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IOHEXOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 45149096253     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2473070819     Document Type: Article

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