Missiles in the heart causing coronary artery disease 44 years after injury

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 979-981

  Seipelt, Ralf G ^a,b   Vazquez Jimenez, Jaime F ^a   Messmer, Bruno J ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FOLLOW UP; HEART INJURY; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MISSILE WOUND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTIGO;

EID: 0033803027     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01672-6     Document Type: Article

References (4)

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