The Left Main Facts: Faced, Spun, But Alas Too Few

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 893-898

  Brinker, Jeff ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BYPASS SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39649113374     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2007.10.046     Document Type: Review

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