The radioactive stent - Any chance of a resurrection?

European Heart Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2001, Pages 1245-1247

  Arab, A ^a   Bode, C ^a   Hehrlein, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL;

ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; BETA RADIATION; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CORONARY STENT; EDITORIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION HAZARD; RESTENOSIS;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BETA RAYS; BRACHYTHERAPY; CELL DIVISION; CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; PHOSPHORUS RADIOISOTOPES; RECURRENCE; STENTS; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 0034910814     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/euhj.2001.2597     Document Type: Editorial

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