Coronary angioplasty of a posterolateral branch with severe proximal vessel tortuosity

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 426-429

  Tishler, Steven ^a   Popma, Jeffrey ^b   Schwartz, Leonard ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^c TORONTO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coronary angioplasty; Coronary artery disease; Coronary bypass surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; RETREATMENT;

EID: 0030818899     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199708)41:4<426::AID-CCD20>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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