Imaging Techniques for Diagnosis of Thoracic Aortic Atherosclerosis

International Journal of Vascular Medicine

Volumn 2016, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Jansen Klomp, Wouter W ^a,b   Brandon Bravo Bruinsma, George J ^a   Van 'T Hof, Arnoud W ^b   Grandjean, Jan G ^c   Nierich, Arno P ^a  

^a ISALA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ASCENDING AORTA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIAORTIC ULTRASOUND; HUMAN; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THORACIC AORTA; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84959421635     PISSN: 20902824     EISSN: 20902832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2016/4726094     Document Type: Review

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