Comparison of luminal enlargement by direct coronary stenting versus predilation coronary stenting by three-dimensional volumetric intravascular ultrasound analysis

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 88, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1179-1182

  Finet, Gérard ^a,b   Weissman, Neil J ^a   Mintz, Gary S ^a   Satler, Lowell F ^a   Kent, Kenneth M ^a   Castagna, Marco T ^a   Ajani, Andrew E ^a   Pichard, Augusto D ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Cardiovascular Hospital   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCERYL TRINITRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HEART MOVEMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS;

EID: 0035889461     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(01)02057-4     Document Type: Article

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