The prevalence of potentially unstable coronary lesions in patients with coronary artery disease - Virtual histology study

Kardiologia Polska

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 244-250

  Rdzanek, Adam ^a,b   Kochman, Janusz ^a   Pietrasik, Arkadiusz ^a   Wilczyńska, Joanna ^a   Rancic, Milan ^a   Opolski, Grzegorz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b WARSZAWSKI UNIWERSYTET MEDYCZNY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Acute coronary syndromes; Thin cap fibroatheroma; Virtual histology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; VIRTUAL REALITY; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGINA PECTORIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; RUPTURE;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RUPTURE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 50049116469     PISSN: 00229032     EISSN: 00229032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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