A comparison of coronary-artery stenting with angioplasty for isolated stenosis of the proximal left anterior descending coronary artery

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 336, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 817-822

  Versaci, Francesco ^a   Gaspardone, Achille ^a   Tomai, Fabrizio ^a   Crea, Filippo ^b   Chiariello, Luigi ^a   Gioffrè, Pier A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESTENOSIS; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECURRENCE; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030893791     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199703203361201     Document Type: Article

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