Quality Improvement Guidelines for the Performance of Cervical Carotid Angioplasty and Stent Placement

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 14, Issue 9 PART 2, 2003, Pages

  Barr, John D ^c   Connors III, John J ^c   Sacks, David ^b   Wojak, Joan C ^c   Becker, Gary J ^c   Cardella, John F ^a   Chopko, Bohdan ^c   Dion, Jacques E ^c   Fox, Allan J ^c   Higashida, Randall T ^c   Hurst, Robert W ^c   Lewis, Curtis A ^c   Matalon, Terence A S ^c   Nesbit, Gary M ^c   Pollock, J Arliss ^c   Russell, Eric J ^c   Seidenwurm, David J ^c   Wallace, Robert C ^c  

^a Society of Interventional Radiology   (United States)

^b Dr David Sacks is Councilor of the Society

^c NONE

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EID: 13344277441     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.RVI.0000088568.65786.E5     Document Type: Article

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