Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 4, Issue 5 , Pages 293-300 , September 2010

Right aortic arch and its variants

  • Jeffrey P. Kanne, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, MC 3252, 600 Highland Avenue, Madison, WI 53572-3252, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • J. David Godwin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA

Received 11 January 2010 ,Accepted 8 July 2010.

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 Conflict of interest: Jeffrey P. Kanne is a consultant for superDimension, Inc (not relevant to content of manuscript) and for PTC Therapeutics Inc (not relevant to content of manuscript). Dr Godwin reports no conflicts of interest.

PII: S1934-5925(10)00462-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2010.07.002

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 4, Issue 5 , Pages 293-300 , September 2010

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