Use of stents to treat kinks causing obstruction in a left internal mammary artery graft

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 223-226

  Rerkpattanapipat, Pairoj ^a   Ghassemi, Rex ^a   Ledley, Gary S ^a   Wongpraparut, Nattawut ^a   Bemis, Charles E ^a   Yazdanfar, Shahriar ^a   Kotler, Morris N ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Intracoronary stents

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 0032957480     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-726X(199902)46:2<223::AID-CCD24>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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