The impact of lesion length and reference vessel diameter on angiographic restenosis and target vessel revascularization in treating in-stent restenosis with radiation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1290-1296

  Ajani, Andrew E ^a   Waksman, Ron ^a,b   Cha, Dong Hun ^a   Gruberg, Luis ^a   Satler, Lowell F ^a   Pichard, Augusto D ^a   Kent, Kenneth M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^b 110 Irving Street NW Suite 4B 1   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; GAMMA RADIATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOTHERAPY; RESTENOSIS; REVASCULARIZATION;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; STENTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037123131     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)01774-6     Document Type: Article

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