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CT angiography, underuse, overuse, or appropriate use?

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Recently, cardiologists have started serious debates over expensive medical technologies, questioning the conclusions that high-resolution cardiac CT images are almost as effective as conventional angiograms. This debate reveals a deep gap among cardiologists over the use of multi-slice CT angiography. A number of physicians have immediately embraced CT technology and installed expensive CT scanners in their hospitals in order to detect early signs of coronary artery disease.

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Department of Cardiology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, the Netherlands

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van der Wall, E.E. CT angiography, underuse, overuse, or appropriate use?. NHJL 17, 223 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03086250

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