Fatal late coronary thrombosis after implantation of a radioactive stent: Postmortem angiographic and histologic findings - Case report

Radiology

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 142-144

  Wexberg, P ^a   Gottsauner Wolf, M ^a   Sulzbacher, I ^a   Birner, P ^a   Laggner, A ^a   Glogar, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Angiography, 54.124; Coronary vessels, stents and prostheses, 54.126; Coronary vessels, thrombosis, 54.442, 54.47; Heart, US, 54.1298; Stents and prostheses, radiation, 54.47; Thrombosis, arterial, 54.442, 54.47

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; FATALITY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; THROMBOGENICITY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

EID: 0034972377     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiology.220.1.r01jl19142     Document Type: Article

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