"Radio-lucent" and "radio-opaque" coronary stents characterized by multislice computed tomography

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Otsuka, Masato ^a   Tanimoto, Shuzou ^a   Sianos, Georgios ^a   Kukreja, Neville ^a   Weustink, Annick C ^a   Serruys, Patrick W ^a   De Feyter, Pim J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Angiography; Coronary disease; Imaging; Multislice computed tomography; Stents

Indexed keywords

CYPHER; EVEROLIMUS; POLYLACTIC ACID; POLYMER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BARE METAL STENT; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENT; DRUG ELUTING STENT; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

EID: 58849087269     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2007.07.089     Document Type: Article

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