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Nonatherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease

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This chapter deals with various CT imaging features of non-atherosclerotic, non-anomalous coronary artery diseases, including coronary artery inflammation, infection, trauma, substance use, embolism, spasm, dissection, and extrinsic compression or invasion. Non-atherosclerotic coronary artery disease can present as aneurysm, ectasia, luminal stenosis, or occlusion. Each disease entity has typical imaging features radiologists should be familiar with.

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Park, EA., Lee, W. (2015). Nonatherosclerotic Coronary Artery Disease. In: Lim, TH. (eds) Practical Textbook of Cardiac CT and MRI. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36397-9_9

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