Compensatory enlargement of angiographically normal coronary segments in patients with coronary artery disease: In vivo documentation using intravascular ultrasound

Angiology

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 775-782

  Nakamura, Yukio ^a   Takemori, Hitoshi ^a   Shiraishi, Kouichi ^a   Inoki, Isao ^a   Sakagami, Manabu ^a   Shimakura, Atsuhiro ^a   Usuda, Kazuo ^a   Kubota, Kouji ^b   Takata, Shigeo ^a   Kobayashi, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Mattou Ishikawa Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DILATATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE;

EID: 9444298433     PISSN: 00033197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/000331979604700804     Document Type: Article

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