Treatment strategies for long and calcified lesions

Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 557-564

  De Gregorio, Joseph ^a   Colombo, Antonio ^a  

^a EMO GVM CENTRO CUORE COLUMBUS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHERECTOMY; BLEEDING; CALCIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVASCULARIZATION; STENT; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 0031741190     PISSN: 08964327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8183.1998.tb00168.x     Document Type: Article

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