Usefulness of the SafeCut Dual Wire PTCA catheter for the treatment of calcified lesions

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Mori, Shumpei ^a   Otsuka, Yoritaka ^a   Kawamura, Atsushi ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HEART CATHETER; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; RESTENOSIS; THROMBOSIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CALCINOSIS; CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 34548060090     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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