Relationship between total and differential leukocyte counts and isolated coronary artery ectasia

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 307-310

  Kocaman, Sinan Altan ^b   Taçoy, Gülten ^b   Şahinarslan, Asife ^b   Çengel, Atiye ^a  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Coronary artery disease; Coronary artery ectasia; Leukocytes; Positive remodeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ECTASIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; LESIONS AND DEFECTS; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CIRCULATION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 58149119540     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0b013e328300427e     Document Type: Article

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