Coronary angioplasty using 5 French guiding catheters: preliminary experience
✍ Scribed by François Gobeil; Thierry Lefèvre; Yves Louvard; Jean-François Piéchaud; Marie-Claude Morice
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 39 KB
- Volume
- 51
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1522-1946
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