Assessment of coronary plaque burden by computed tomography: Getting closer - Step by step

Heart

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 575-576

  Ferencik, Maros ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATORVASTATIN; PRAVASTATIN; ROSUVASTATIN;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77950563991     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2009.187815     Document Type: Editorial

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