The atherosclerotic aortic arch: Considerations in diagnostic imaging

Preventive Cardiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 162-167

  Gottsegen, Joshua M ^a   Coplan, Neil L ^a  

^a LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORINE 18;

AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROMA; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAOPERATIVE EPIAORTIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOCARDIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; THORACIC AORTA;

AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMANS;

EID: 50549085426     PISSN: 1520037X     EISSN: 17517141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-7141.2008.08296.x     Document Type: Review

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