Left main stenting: Now and future

Circulation Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 749-755

  Park, Seung Jung ^a   Park, Duk Woo ^a  

^a University of Ulsan College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bypass surgery; Left main coronary disease; Stents

Indexed keywords

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CORONARY STENT; DECISION MAKING; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASOUND; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; REGISTER; REPEAT PROCEDURE; REVIEW; SAFETY; STENT THROMBOSIS; THERAPY EFFECT;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; ANIMALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; STENTS;

EID: 79953671509     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-11-0217     Document Type: Review

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