Chronic Total Occlusion of the Left Main Coronary Artery

Internal Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 471-478

  Sugishita, Kazuro ^a   Shimizu, Tatsuya ^a   Kinugawa, Koh Ichiro ^a   Harada, Kazumasa ^a   Ikenouchi, Hiroshi ^a   Matsui, Hiroshi ^a   Kohmoto, Osami ^a   Takahashi, Toshiyuki ^a   Omata, Masao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Collaterals; Coronary artery bypass surgery; Right coronary artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031183311     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.36.471     Document Type: Article

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