Calcium Score Use in Isolation in Acute Chest Pain Setting - Is it Sufficient?
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Calcium Score Use in Isolation in Acute Chest Pain Setting – Is it Sufficient? Tiago Augusto Magalhães,1,2 Marcio Sommer Bittencourt,3,4 Carlos Eduardo Rochitte2,5 Complexo Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná (CHC-UFPR),1 Curitiba, PR; Hospital do Coração – Associação Sanatório Sírio – HCor/SP;2 Hospital Universitário e Instituto do Câncer do Estado de São Paulo (ICESP) – Universidade de São Paulo;3 Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein e Faculdade Israelita de Ciências da Saúde Albert Einstein;4 Instituto do Coração (InCor) – Hospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo,5 São Paulo, SP – Brazil
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