Directional Coronary Atherectomy versus Balloon Angioplasty

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 329, Issue 4, 1993, Pages 273-274

  Bittl, John A ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATHERECTOMY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMAN;

EID: 0027243998     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199307223290410     Document Type: Editorial

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