Clinical and angiographic experience with coronary stenting using freedom™ stent

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 418-427

  De Scheerder, Ivan K ^a,b   Wang, Kai ^a   Kerdsinchai, Pitsanu ^a   Supanantaroek, Chumpol ^a   Piessens, Jan H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Dept Cardiology ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Angiographic follow up; Clinical evaluation; Freedom coronary stent

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000993314     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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