Balloon entrapment during side-branch angioplasty through a stent
✍ Scribed by Rajendra Kumar Premchand; Marie-Claude Morice; Thierry Lefèvre; Christophe Loubeyre; Yves Louvard; Jean-François Piéchaud
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 8 KB
- Volume
- 48
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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