Three-year follow-up of the Argentine Randomized Trial of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty Versus Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in Multivessel Disease (ERACI)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1178-1184

  Rodriguez, Alfredo ^a   Mele, Eduardo ^a   Peyregne, Ernesto ^a   Bullon, Fernando ^a   Perez Baliño, Nestor ^a   Sosa Liprandi, Maria I ^a   Palacios, Igor F ^b  

^a Anchorena Hospital   (Argentina)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0029986611     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0735-1097(95)00592-7     Document Type: Article

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