First case reports of controlled blunt microdissection for percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of chronic total occlusions in peripheral arteries

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 255-258

  Mossop, Peter ^a   Cincotta, Marion ^a   Whitbourn, Robert ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Catheter device; Iliac artery; Percutaneous revascularization; Peripheral arterial occlusive disease

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; TICLOPIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CASE REPORT; CLAUDICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISSECTION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; REVASCULARIZATION; STENT; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; MALE; MICRODISSECTION; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0038048864     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.10529     Document Type: Article

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