Gold concentration in blood in patients with gold-plated stents

Contact Dermatitis

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 221-222

  Svedman, Cecilia ^a   Lundh, Thomas ^a   Tillman, Cecilia ^a   Möller, Halvor ^a   Gustavsson, Carl Gunnar ^a   Bruze, Magnus ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Contact allergy to gold; Inductive coupled plasma mass spectrometry; PTCA; Restenosis; Stent

Indexed keywords

GOLD; SODIUM AUROTHIOSULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT ALLERGY; DENTAL SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATCH TEST; QUESTIONNAIRE; REVASCULARIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STENT;

ADULT; AGED; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DERMATITIS, ALLERGIC CONTACT; FEMALE; GOLD; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS;

EID: 33645720289     PISSN: 01051873     EISSN: 16000536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-1873.2006.0775i.x     Document Type: Article

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