CT Distinction of interarterial and intraseptal courses of anomalous left coronary artery arising from inappropriate aortic sinus

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 194, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Nath, Hrudaya ^a   Singh, Satinder P ^a   Lloyd, Steven G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA SINUS; ASCENDING AORTA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INFUNDIBULUM; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SUDDEN DEATH;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77950603575     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.3582     Document Type: Letter

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