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International Journal of Radiology & Medical Imaging Volume 2 (2016), Article ID 2:IJRMI-107, 5 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-446X/2016/107
Case Report
Usefulness of Cardiac Computed Tomography in Evaluating Patients with Myocardial Bridges Suspected to have Myocardial Ischemia

Mohamed Bamoshmoosh1,2*, Fabio Fanfani1, Cecilia Volpe1, Rosalba Ferrugia1, Nora Bagnole1, Ettore Marin1 and Leonardo Osti1

1Radiology Department, Fanfani Clinical Research Institute, Florence, Italy
2Cardiology Department, University of Science and Technology, Sana’a, Yemen
Dr. Mohamed Bamoshmoosh, Radiology Department, Fanfani Clinical Research Institute, Florence, Italy, Tel: +393331653645; E-mail: bamoshmoosh@hotmail.it
03 October 2015; 28 December 2015; 02 January 2016
Bamoshmoosh M, Fanfani F, Volpe C, Ferrugia R, Bagnole N, et al. (2016) Usefulness of Cardiac Computed Tomography in Evaluating Patients with Myocardial Bridges Suspected to have Myocardial Ischemia. Int J Radiol Med Imag 2: 107. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-446X/2016/107
© 2016 Bamoshmoosh et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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