Area ablation: A new lasing concept provides significantly enhanced acute and long-term results for treatment of in-stent restenosis

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 1-8

  Dahm, Johannes B ^a   Kuon, Eberhard ^b   Hummel, Astrid ^a   Möx, Bernhard ^a   Staudt, Alexander ^a   Felix, Stephan B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b Klinik Frankische Schweiz   (Germany)

Author keywords

Area ablation; Debulking; Eccentric laser angioplasty; In stent restenosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LASER ANGIOPLASTY; LASER SURGERY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION; SAFETY; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; TIME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, LASER-ASSISTED; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0035992554     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.10073     Document Type: Article

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