Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 3, Issue 5 , Pages 293-299 , September 2009

Noncardiac findings on cardiac CT part I: Pros and cons

  • Ronan P. Killeen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland
    • ,
  • Jonathan D. Dodd, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin 4, Ireland
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Ricardo C. Cury, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Baptist (Miami) Cardiac and Vascular Institute, Miami, FL, USA

Received 28 January 2009 ,Accepted 5 May 2009.

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 Conflict of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

PII: S1934-5925(09)00156-7

doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2009.05.003

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 3, Issue 5 , Pages 293-299 , September 2009

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