Comparison of angiographic and clinical outcomes of coronary stenting of chronic total occlusions versus subtotal occlusions

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 1-6

  Moussa, Issam ^b   Di Mario, Carlo ^b   Moses, Jeffrey ^b   Reimers, Bernhard ^b   Di Francesco, Lucia ^b   Blengino, Simonetta ^b   Colombo, Antonio ^a  

^a EMO GVM CENTRO CUORE COLUMBUS   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; RESTENOSIS; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031975044     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00859-X     Document Type: Article

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