The predictive value of computed tomography calcium scores: a comparison with quantitative volumetric intravascular ultrasound

Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 30-35

  Okabe, Teruo ^a   Mintz, Gary S ^b   Weigold, Wm Guy ^a   Roswell, Robert ^a   Joshi, Subodh ^a   Lee, Sung Yun ^a   Lee, Bongryeol ^a   Steinberg, Daniel H ^a   Roy, Probal ^a   Pinto Slottow, Tina L ^a   Kaneshige, Kimberly ^a   Torguson, Rebecca ^a   Xue, Zhenyi ^a   Satler, Lowell F ^a   Kent, Kenneth M ^a   Pichard, Augusto D ^a   Weissman, Neil J ^a   Lindsay, Joseph ^a   Waksman, Ron ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Calcium score; Intravascular ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY LESION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIUM SCORING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 58149502856     PISSN: 15538389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carrev.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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