The assessment of atherosclerosis on vascular structures in patients with acute coronary syndrome

Clinical and Investigative Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kalay, Nihat ^a   Yarlioglues, Mikail ^a   Ardic, Idris ^a   Duran, Mustafa ^b   Kaya, Mehmet Gungor ^a   Inanc, Tugrul ^a   Dogan, Ali ^a   Koç, Fatih ^c   Çiçek, Davran ^d   Kasapkara, Ahmet ^a   Çelik, Ahmet ^a   Topsakal, Ramazan ^b   Oguzhan, Abdurrahman ^a   Ergin, Ali ^e  

^a ERCIYES UNIVERSITY MEDICAL FACULTY   (Turkey)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Turkey)

^c GAZIOSMANPASA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Ba kcent University   (Turkey)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD FLOW; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTIMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TUNICA MEDIA; VASODILATATION;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; AGED; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CAROTID ARTERIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA; VASODILATION;

EID: 77249122974     PISSN: 0147958X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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