To PROTECT or not to PROTECT? In lower extremity angioplasty procedures, "why not?" is the question!

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 277-282

  Allie, David E ^a  

^a Cardiovascular Institute of the South   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ATHERECTOMY; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; EMBOLISM PREVENTION; FEMORAL ARTERY; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; LASER ANGIOPLASTY; LEG; LEG ISCHEMIA; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; REGISTER; STENT; THROMBUS;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ATHERECTOMY; EMBOLISM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FILTRATION; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 47049126031     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/08-2397C.1     Document Type: Note

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