Intraluminal blunt microdissection for angioplasty of coronary chronic total occlusions

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 194-198

  Whitbourn, Robert J ^a   Cincotta, Marion ^a   Mossop, Peter ^a   Selmon, Matthew ^b  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter device; Chronic total occlusion; Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; CORONARY STENT; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; DISSECTION; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037311098     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.10402     Document Type: Article

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