Angioplasty of chronic total coronary occlusions with the use of six French guiding catheters

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 255-260

  Koch, Karel T ^a   Piek, Jan J ^b   De Winter, Robbert J ^b   Mulder, Karla ^b   Peters, Ron J G ^b   David, George K ^b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

6 French guiding catheters; angioplasty; coronary occlusion

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY DISEASE; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031058366     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199703)40:3<255::AID-CCD7>3.0.CO;2-9     Document Type: Article

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