The Comparison of Balloon versus Rotational Angioplasty (COBRA) study protocol: A prospective randomized study

Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 271-275

  Erbel, Raimund ^a,b   Dill, Thorsten ^a,b   Peter, W ^a   Weber, M D ^b   Liu, Fengqi ^c   Küchler, Robert ^a,b   Haude, Michael ^a   Rupprecht, H J ^b   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^c   Junbo, G E ^c   Hamm, Christiam W ^d,e  

^a Ulrich Dietz   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^e DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 8544261082     PISSN: 08964327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8183.1997.tb00041.x     Document Type: Article

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