Spontaneous plaque rupture and thrombus formation in the left main coronary artery documented by intravascular ultrasound

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 358-360

  Park, James Byung R ^a   Tobis, Jonathan M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

intravascular ultrasound; plaque rupture; thrombus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; THROMBUS;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; THROMBECTOMY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0030900278     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199704)40:4<358::AID-CCD7>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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