Cardiac CT beyond coronary angiography: Current and emerging non-coronary cardiac applications

Heart

Volumn 97, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 417-424

  Desai, Milind Y ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONSTRICTIVE PERICARDITIS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART TUMOR; HUMAN; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT PLANNING; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS;

CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79851479105     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2009.184382     Document Type: Review

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