Unusual malignant coronary artery anomaly: Results of coronary angiography, MR imaging, and multislice CT

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 389-393

  Apitzsch, Jonas ^a   Kühl, Harald P ^a   Mühlenbruch, Georg ^a   Mahnken, Andreas H ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Coronary angiography; Coronary vessels; Heart; Magnetic resonance imaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA SINUS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; THORAX PAIN;

CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RARE DISEASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINUS OF VALSALVA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953134981     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-009-9663-y     Document Type: Article

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