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Nondestructive Monitoring of Degradable Scaffold-Based Tissue-Engineered Blood Vessel Development Using Optical Coherence Tomography
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Bioresorbable coronary scaffolds should disappear faster
Antoine Lafont1, Johanne Mensah-Gourmel1
1Université Paris-Descartes, Paris, France; European Georges Pompidou Hospital, Cardiology Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France; Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX), Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France.
Lancet (London, England)
|March 31, 2016
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