Ultrasound logic: The value of intracoronary imaging for the interventionist

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 475-490

  Oesterle, Stephen N ^a   Limpijankit, Thosaphol ^a   Yeung, Alan C ^a   Stertzer, Simon ^a   Pomerantsev, Eugene ^a   Yock, Paul G ^a   Fitzgerald, Peter J ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Coronary angioplasty; Coronary intervention; Image interpretation; Intracoronary stenting; Intravascular ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CORONARY STENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0032768986     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-726X(199908)47:4<475::AID-CCD19>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Review

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