From Postmortem Characterization to the In Vivo Detection of Thin-Capped Fibroatheromas: The Missing Link Toward Percutaneous Treatment. What If Diogenes Would Have Found What He Was Looking For?**Editorials published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology reflect the views of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of JACC or the American...

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 50, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 950-952

  Serruys, Patrick W ^a   Garcia Garcia, Hector M ^a   Regar, Evelyn ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ANGIOSCOPY; ATHEROMA; EDITORIAL; HEART DEATH; HEART INJURY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THIN CAP FIBROATHEROMA; THROMBOSIS;

CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RUPTURE; SYNDROME;

EID: 34548288035     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.04.085     Document Type: Editorial

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