Posterior interatrial muscular connection between the coronary sinus and left atrium: Anatomic and functional study of the coronary sinus with multidetector CT

Radiology

Volumn 260, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 671-679

  Saremi, Farhood ^a   Thonar, Benjamin ^b   Sarlaty, Taraneh ^a   Shmayevich, Irene ^a   Malik, Shaista ^b   Smith, Clyde W ^a   Krishnan, Subramaniam ^b   Sánchez Quintana, Damián ^c   Narula, Navneet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM MUSCLE; HEART CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AORTOGRAPHY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84860389617     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11102278     Document Type: Article

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