Stents covered by autologous venous grafts: Feasibility and immediate and long-term results

American Heart Journal

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 437-445

  Stefanadis, Christodoulos ^a   Toutouzas, Konstantinos ^a   Tsiamis, Eleftherios ^a   Vlachopoulos, Charalambos ^a   Kallikazaros, Ioannis ^a   Stratos, Costas ^a   Vavuranakis, Manolis ^a   Toutouzas, Pavlos ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY STENT; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; SAFETY; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; VEIN GRAFT;

EID: 0034060522     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(00)90087-5     Document Type: Article

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