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Can multislice CT detect coronary artery disease accurately?

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boxed-textHoffman MHK et al. (2005) Noninvasive coronary angiography with multislice computed tomography. JAMA 293: 2471–2478

16-slice CT coronary angiography is highly accurate but is not yet a clinically acceptable alternative to catheter-based coronary angiography

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  1. PJ de Feyter: His current interests include percutaneous treatment of coronary artery disease, intracoronary ultrasonography, cardiac MRI and cardiac multislice CT.

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