Coronary calcification: Achilles' heel in the assessment for coronary artery disease in patients with symptomatic angina?

International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 855-857

  Makaryus, John N ^a   Makaryus, Amgad N ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY CALCIUM SCORE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HEART INDEX; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NOTE; PROBABILITY; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 72349096066     PISSN: 15695794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10554-009-9535-1     Document Type: Note

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