Stent implantation versus balloon angioplasty in chronic coronary occlusions: results from the GISSOC trial
Paolo Rubartelli, MDa,
Luigi Niccoli, MD*,
Edoardo Verna, MD ,
Corinna Giachero, MDa,
Marco Zimarino, MD ,
Alessandro Fontanelli, MD ,
Corrado Vassanelli, MD||,
Luigi Campolo, MD¶,
Eugenio Martuscelli, MD#,
Giorgio Tommasini, MD** for the Gruppo Italiano di Studio sullo Stent nelle Occlusioni Coronariche (GISSOC)
a Ospedale San Martino, Genoa, Italy
* Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy
Ospedale di Circolo, Varese, Italy
Ospedale Calai, Gualdo Tadino, Italy
Ospedale Santa Maria della Misericordia, Udine, Italy
|| Ospedale Policlinico, Verona, Italy
¶ Ospedale Niguarda, Milan, Italy
# Policlinico Umberto 1, Rome, Italy
** Ospedale Maggiore, Treviglio, Italy

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Figure 1 Cumulative distribution function curves of postprocedural and follow-up MLD in patients assigned to PTCA or stent implantation.
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