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Intracoronary radiation therapy

M.Y Salamea,f1, S Verheyea, I.R Crockerb, N.A.F Chronosa, K.A Robinsona and S.B King, IIIa

a The Andreas Gruentzig Cardiovascular Center, Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
b Department of Radiation Oncology, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

Received September 21, 2000; accepted October 5, 2000

Key Words: Restenosis • radiation • brachythreapy • angioplasty • thrombosis

f1 Correspondence: M. Y. Salame, BSc, MB BS, MRCP, Fellow in Clinical Interventional Cardiology & Intracoronary Irradiation Research, The Andreas Gruentzig Cardiovascular Center, Suite F606, Emory University Hospital, 1364 Clifton Road, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.

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