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PET Imaging of Atherosclerotic Disease: Advancing Plaque Assessment from Anatomy to Pathophysiology

Atherosclerosis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. It is now widely recognized that the disease is more than simply a flow-limiting process and that the atheromatous plaque represents a nidus for inflammation with a consequent risk of plaque rupture and atherothrombosis, leading to myoca...

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Autores principales: Evans, Nicholas R., Tarkin, Jason M., Chowdhury, Mohammed M., Warburton, Elizabeth A., Rudd, James H. F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4842219/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27108163
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11883-016-0584-3