Guidewire bias: Potential source of complications with rotational atherectomy

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL. 3, 1996, Pages 64-68

  Reisman, Mark ^a,b   Harms, Verna ^a  

^a SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

atherectomy; coronary artery disease; perforation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY;

STAINLESS STEEL;

AGED; ATHERECTOMY, CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STAINLESS STEEL;

EID: 0030331680     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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