Improving outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention

American Heart Journal

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 979-982

  Nash, I S ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EDITORIAL; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 0033427529     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(99)70344-3     Document Type: Editorial

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