Is there a difference in the diagnostic accuracy of computed tomography coronary angiography between women and men?

Coronary Artery Disease

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 421-427

  Dharampal, Anoeshka S ^a   Rossi, Alexia ^a   Papadopoulou, Stella L ^a   Weustink, Annick C ^a   Boersma, Eric ^a   Nieman, Koen ^a   Chen, Chia Hui ^a   Dijkshoorn, Marcel ^a   Mollet, Nico R ^a   Krestin, Gabriel P ^a   De Feyter, Pim J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

coronary artery disease; diagnostic accuracy; multislice computed tomography; multivariate analyses; patient; segment; sex; vessel

Indexed keywords

IOMEPROL; IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; INVASIVE PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80051789753     PISSN: 09546928     EISSN: 14735830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCA.0b013e3283472ae8     Document Type: Review

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