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Crossing the “balloon uncrossable” chronic total occlusion: Tornus to the rescue

✍ Scribed by Emmanouil S. Brilakis; Subhash Banerjee

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2011
Tongue
English
Weight
98 KB
Volume
78
Category
Article
ISSN
1522-1946

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