Cardiac CT assessment of left atrial accessory appendages and diverticula

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 807-812

  Abbara, Suhny ^a   Mundo Sagardia, Jorge A ^a   Hoffmann, Udo ^a   Cury, Ricardo C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac congenital disease; Cardiac CT; Left atrial accessory appendage; Left atrial diverticulum; Left atrial enlargement; Thrombus; Valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM DIVERTICULUM; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ARTIFACTS; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DIVERTICULUM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 69949092749     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.08.2229     Document Type: Article

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