Evaluation of coronary atherosclerosis by multislice computed tomography in patients with acute myocardial infarction and without significant coronary artery stenosis a comparative study with quantitative coronary angiography

Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 205-211

  Aldrovandi, Annachiara ^a   Cademartiri, Filippo ^a   Menozzi, Alberto ^a   Ugo, Fabrizio ^a   Lina, Daniela ^a   Maffei, Erica ^a   Palumbo, Alessandro ^a   Fusaro, Michele ^a   Crisi, Girolamo ^a   Ardissino, Diego ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Angiography; Coronary disease; Imaging; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 70350061678     PISSN: 19419651     EISSN: 19420080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCIMAGING.108.786962     Document Type: Article

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