DISCOVER: Dutch Iliac Stent trial: COVERed balloon-expandable versus uncovered balloon-expandable stents in the common iliac artery: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bekken, Joost A ^a   Vos, Jan Albert ^b   Aarts, Ruud A ^a   de Vries, Jean Paul P M ^b   Fioole, Bram ^a  

^a Maasstad Hospital Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

^b ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atherosclerotic disease; Common Iliac Artery; Covered stent; Critical Limb Ischemia; Endovascular; Intermittent Claudication; Peripheral arterial occlusive disease; Stenting

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; ARTERIAL STENT; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY REOCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BALLOON EXPANDABLE STENT; COMMON ILIAC ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP FEMORAL ARTERY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS;

EID: 84869129116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1745-6215-13-215     Document Type: Article

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