Assessment of the “long sheath” technique for percutaneous aortic balloon valvuloplasty
✍ Scribed by Plante, Sylvain ;Beatt, Kevin J. ;van den Brand, Marcel ;Di Mario, Carlo ;Meier, Bernhard ;Serruys, Patrick W.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 694 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0098-6569
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