Fractured and Embolized Coronary Stent Mimicking Significant Internal Carotid Stenosis

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 739-740

  Immer, Franz F ^a   Heller, Georg ^a   Dick, Florian ^a   Carrel, Thierry P ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY STENT; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RESTENOSIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; EMBOLISM; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; HUMANS; STENTS;

EID: 33746084886     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.10.029     Document Type: Article

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