Late acute thrombotic occlusion after endovascular brachytherapy and stenting of femoropopliteal arteries
Robert Bonvini, MD*,
Iris Baumgartner, MD
,
Do Dai Do, MD
,
Mario Alerci, MD*,
Jeanne-Marie Segatto, RN*,
Paolo Tutta, MD*,
Kurt Jäger, MD
,
Markus Aschwanden, MD
,
Ernst Schneider, MD
,
Beatrice Amann-Vesti, MD
,
Richard Greiner, MD||,
Felix Mahler, MD
and
Augusto Gallino, MD, FACC*,*
* Divisions of Vascular Medicine and Interventional Radiology of Ospedale San Giovanni, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Divisions of Angiology of the University Hospital Berne, Berne, Switzerland
University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland
University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
|| Department of Radiation Oncology of the University of Berne, Berne, Switzerland

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Figure 1 Restenosis rate at six-month follow-up in patients with stent implantation with and without brachytherapy. The black area corresponds to the rate of patients with late thrombotic occlusion.
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