Coronary artery calcium scoring in the age of CT angiography: What is its role?

Current Atherosclerosis Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 438-443

  Raggi, Paolo ^a   Khan, Akbar ^b   Arepali, Chesnal ^b   Stillman, Arthur E ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM;

ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HUMAN; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HISPANIC; INTIMA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS; TUNICA MEDIA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CALCIUM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 55449121950     PISSN: 15233804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11883-008-0067-2     Document Type: Review

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