If you want to stent... Do intravascular ultrasound!

JACC: Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 3, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 818-820

  Hodgson, John McB ^a  

^a GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

fractional flow reserve; intravascular ultrasound; percutaneous coronary intervention

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DIAMETER; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CORONARY STENT; FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE; HUMAN; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; NOTE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 77956700715     PISSN: 19368798     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2010.07.004     Document Type: Editorial

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