Update on laser lead extraction

Journal of Invasive Cardiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 230-232

  Snow, Jeffrey S ^a   Parekh, Sameer ^b  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; LEAD;

DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEFIBRILLATOR; DEVICE INFECTION; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART PERFORATION; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; LASER LEAD EXTRACTION; LASER SURGERY; PERFORATION; REVIEW; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIUM;

ANGIOPLASTY, LASER; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FOREIGN BODIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; LASERS, EXCIMER; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REOPERATION;

EID: 67649626024     PISSN: 10423931     EISSN: 15572501     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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