Procedure operative per indagini diagnostiche vascolari

Minerva Cardioangiologica

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 303-355

  Nuzzaci, G ^a   Gossetti, B ^a   Antignani, P L ^a   Annoni, F ^a   De Fabritiis, A ^a   Pedrini, L ^a   Pinto, A ^a   Poli, L ^a   Pulli, R ^a  

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Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOSCOPY; AORTA DISEASE; ARM; ARTICLE; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; ITALY; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MEDICAL SOCIETY; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARD; THORAX; TRANSCUTANEOUS OXYGEN MONITORING; VASCULAR DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTIC DISEASES; ARM; BLOOD GAS MONITORING, TRANSCUTANEOUS; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; ITALY; LEG; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MICROSCOPIC ANGIOSCOPY; PHOTOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; THORAX; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; VASCULAR DISEASES;

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