Microparticle deposition in periarterial microvasculature and intramural dissections after porous balloon delivery into atherosclerotic vessels: Quantitation and localization by confocal scanning laser microscopy

American Heart Journal

Volumn 131, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 892-898

  Nasser, Tony K ^a   Wilensky, Robert L ^a,b   Mehdi, Khawar ^a   March, Keith L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVENTITIA; ANGIOPLASTY; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BALLOON CATHETER; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; FEMORAL ARTERY; MICROCIRCULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RESTENOSIS; VASA VASORUM;

EID: 0029915819     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(96)90170-2     Document Type: Article

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