Treatment of Complex Superficial Femoral Artery Lesions With PolarCath Cryoplasty

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 447-449

  Banerjee, Subhash ^a   Brilakis, Emmanouil S ^a   Das, Tony S ^b   Lichtenwalter, Christopher S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL OF DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERY LESION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CRYOPLASTY; CRYOTHERAPY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTENOSIS; STENT; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALLOON DILATATION; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 67651101094     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2009.03.063     Document Type: Article

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