Cardiac CT in the Emergency Department

Cardiology Clinics

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 587-596

  Chinnaiyan, Kavitha M ^a   Raff, Gilbert L ^a   Goldstein, James A ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute chest pain; Acute coronary syndromes; Cardiac CT; Coronary CT angiography; Emergency department

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AORTA DISSECTION; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY CARE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE PERFUSION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CARE UNITS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70349183020     PISSN: 07338651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ccl.2009.06.002     Document Type: Review

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