Myocardial fat at cardiac imaging: How can we differentiate pathologic from physiologic fatty infiltration?

Radiographics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1587-1602

  Kimura, Fumiko ^a   Matsuo, Yuka ^a   Nakajima, Takatomo ^b   Nishikawa, Toshio ^b   Kawamura, Shunji ^b   Sannohe, Seiya ^a   Hagiwara, Nobuhisa ^b   Sakai, Fumikazu ^a  

^a SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; LIPOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMOGENIC RIGHT VENTRICULAR DYSPLASIA; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LIPOMA; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78149366419     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.306105519     Document Type: Article

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