Dose napkin-ring sign suggest possibility to identify rupture-prone plaque in coronary computed tomography angiography?

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 328-329

  Yamamoto, Hideya ^a   Kitagawa, Toshiro ^a   Kihara, Yasuki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA RUPTURE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; RADIATION ATTENUATION;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY PLAQUE;

CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84887184703     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: 18764738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2013.02.020     Document Type: Editorial

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