Severe coronary and extracoronary atherosclerosis in autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia detected by whole-body computed tomography angiography

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 571-573

  Arca, Marcello ^a,b   Quagliarini, Fabiana ^a   Pigna, Giovanni ^a   Catalano, Carlo ^a   Napoli, Alessandro ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE REPORT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENERAL DEVICE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; ITALY; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; ITALY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TOMOGRAPHY SCANNERS, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 81955160901     PISSN: 18280447     EISSN: 19709366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-011-0550-6     Document Type: Letter

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