Coronary stent fracture in an octogenarian patient: from bad to worse.
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SUBMITTER: Triantafyllis AS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8648541 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Coronary stent fracture in an octogenarian patient: from bad to worse.
Triantafyllis Andreas S AS Fountoulakis Petros N PN Charalampidis Georgios G Kotinas Konstantinos K Tsinivizov Pavlos P Varvarousis Dimitrios D Giannakopoulos Andreas A Apollonatou Sofia S Stefanidou Areti A Chatzopoulos Stamatios S Tsiptsios Dimitrios D Tsamakis Konstantinos K Kyfnidis Konstantinos K Poulimenos Leonidas E LE
Journal of geriatric cardiology : JGC 20211101 11
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