Cutaneous Radiation Injury After Complex Coronary Intervention

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 2, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 701-702

  Slovut, David P ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STEROID; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RASH; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SKIN EXFOLIATION; SKIN INJURY; THORAX PAIN;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIODERMATITIS; SILVER SULFADIAZINE; STENTS; STEROIDS;

EID: 67650588649     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2009.04.015     Document Type: Article

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