Coronary Venous Aneurysm in Patients Without Cardiac Arrhythmia as Detected by MDCT. An Anatomic Variant or a Pathologic Entity

JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 257-265

  Saremi, Farhood ^a   Channual, Stephanie ^a   Sarlaty, Taraneh ^a   Tafti, Mona A ^a   Milliken, Jeffrey C ^a   Narula, Jagat ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

accessory pathways; cardiac arrhythmias; coronary computed tomography angiography; coronary vein aneurysm; ventricular pre excitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; CORONARY SINUS; CORONARY VEIN; DIASTOLE; DIVERTICULAR ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FUSIFORM ANEURYSM; GREAT BLOOD VESSEL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERVENTRICULAR VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTOLE; VEIN ANEURYSM; VEIN DIAMETER;

AGED; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANEURYSM; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY SINUS; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77649266236     PISSN: 1936878X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2009.09.026     Document Type: Article

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