The nitinol vascular occlusion plug: Preliminary experimental evaluation in peripheral veins

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-27

  Sharafuddin, Melhem J A ^a   Gu, Xiaoping ^b   Urness, Myra ^b   Amplatz, Kurt ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b Fairview University   (United States)

^c UNIV OF MINNESOTA HOSP AND CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Embolization; Veins, embolization

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; CELL PROLIFERATION; DEVICE; DOG; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTIMA; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL VEIN; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN DIAMETER;

EID: 0032909433     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1051-0443(99)70004-7     Document Type: Article

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