Letter by lippi and cervellin regarding article, high-sensitivity troponin T concentrations in acute chest pain patients evaluated with cardiac computed tomography

Circulation

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lippi, Giuseppe ^a   Cervellin, Gianfranco ^b  

^a UO Diagnostica Ematochimica   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TROPONIN T;

COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHEST PAIN; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TROPONIN T;

EID: 78751613510     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.954081     Document Type: Letter

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