Coronary artery kinking with poststenotic ectasia: multislice computed tomography completes diagnosis: a review of the literature.
By describing the way of diagnosis, we report a case of coronary artery kinking associated with poststenotic dilatation. We give a review of the literature considering the different coronary morphology variations, etiological differential diagnosis, and the preferable terminology.
Langer
Christoph
C
Department of Cardiology, Heart Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany. clanger@hdz-nrw.de
Franzke
Karin
K
Butz
Thomas
T
Piper
Cornelia
C
Horstkotte
Dieter
D
Wiemer
Marcus
M
D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology; D017023:Coronary Angiography / Q000379:methods*; D023921:Coronary Stenosis / Q000150:complications*; D003330:Coronary Vessel Anomalies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*