The role of coronary artery calcification score in clinical practice

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Piers, Lieuwe H ^a   Salachova, Farah ^a   Slart, Riemer H J A ^a   Vliegenthart, Rozemarijn ^a   Dikkers, Riksta ^a   Hospers, Frederique A P ^a   Bouma, Hjalmar R ^a   Zeebregts, Clark J ^a   Willems, Tineke P ^a   Oudkerk, Matthijs ^a   Zijlstra, Felix ^a   Tio, René A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ELECTRON BEAM TOMOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT; TREATMENT PLANNING; CALCINOSIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 61349118111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712261     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2261-8-38     Document Type: Article

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