Surgery or stent? The gap continues to narrow

Lancet

Volumn 360, Issue 9338, 2002, Pages 961-962

  O'Neill, William W ^a   Grines, Cindy L ^a  

^a WILLIAM BEAUMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY STENT; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q WAVE; SAFETY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037190580     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)11118-4     Document Type: Note

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