Coronary microembolization

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 22-24

  Erbel, Raimund ^a   Heusch, Gerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL;

ANGIOSCOPY; ARTERY EMBOLISM; AUTOPSY; CORONARY ARTERY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGING; INFARCTION; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; MICROCIRCULATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUDDEN DEATH; THROMBOCYTE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBUS;

EID: 0033940215     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(00)00708-7     Document Type: Editorial

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