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SMITH ET AL., ACC/AHA GUIDELINES FOR PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION
(REVISION OF THE 1993 PTCA GUIDELINES)
JACC VOL. 37, NO. 8, JUNE 2001:2239i-lxvi

ACC/AHA Guidelines for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (Revision of the 1993 PTCA Guidelines)

A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee to Revise the 1993 Guidelines for Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty)

Endorsed by the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions

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