Catheter intervention for adult aortic coarctation: Be very careful! - Editorial comment

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 536-537

  Hijazi, Ziyad M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULT DISEASE; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA SURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; EDITORIAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AORTIC COARCTATION; AORTIC RUPTURE; DILATATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; STENTS;

EID: 0043167798     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.10587     Document Type: Editorial

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