Coronary CT angiography for acute chest pain

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 367, Issue 17, 2012, Pages 1664-1667

  Karakas, Mahir ^a   Koenig, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; TROPONIN T;

ACUTE CHEST PAIN; ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ASSAY; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; COST; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EUROPE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX PAIN; TROPONIN T ASSAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84867770172     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMc1210170     Document Type: Letter

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