Editorial comment: Chronic total occlusion: What guides our current practice?

Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 9-10

  Alt, Eckhard ^a   Pinkernell, Kai ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORONARY ARTERY CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS;

EID: 18744378290     PISSN: 08964327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8183.2005.0300a.x     Document Type: Note

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