Total reconstruction of a diseased saphenous vein graft by means of conventional and autologous tissue-coated stents

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 318-321

  Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a,b   Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Tsiamis, Eleftherios ^a   Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^a   Kallikazaros, Ioannis ^a   Stratos, Costas ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Paleo Psychico 15452 ^*  (Greece)

Author keywords

Autologous vascular grafts; Coated stents; Saphenous vein graft

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; STENT; TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0031936416     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199803)43:3<318::AID-CCD17>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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