MDCT detection of anomalous origins of the left main coronary artery: Report of 2 cases

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 485-487

  Matsumoto, Naoya ^a   Sato, Yuichi ^a   Kunimasa, Taeko ^a   Yoda, Shunichi ^a   Yokoyama, Shinichiro ^a   Takayama, Tadateru ^a   Komatsu, Sei ^b   Achenbach, Stephan ^b   Saito, Satoshi ^a   Hirayama, Atsushi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anomalous origin of the left main coronary artery; Multidetector row computed tomography; Virtual angioscopy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; DESCENDING AORTA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MUCOCUTANEOUS LYMPH NODE SYNDROME; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RARE DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION;

AGED; CHILD; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; HUMANS; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 55549087927     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.05.086     Document Type: Article

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