Coronary veins: Comprehensive CT-anatomic classification and review of variants and clinical implications

Radiographics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Saremi, Farhood ^a   Muresian, Horia ^b   Sánchez Quintana, Damián ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL MALFORMATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; VASCULAR DISEASE;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; HUMANS; PHLEBOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 84855739541     PISSN: 02715333     EISSN: 15271323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/rg.321115014     Document Type: Review

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