Value of cardiac CT in patients with heart failure

Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 410-417

  Mangalat, Deepa ^b   Kalogeropoulos, Andreas ^b   Georgiopoulou, Vasiliki ^b   Stillman, Arthur ^b   Butler, Javed ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

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EID: 79955444414     PISSN: 19419066     EISSN: 19419074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12410-009-0052-3     Document Type: Review

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