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. 2016;12(4):377-379.
doi: 10.5114/aic.2016.63641. Epub 2016 Nov 17.

Pentafurcation of left main coronary artery

Paweł Tyczyński  1 , Rafał Wolny  1 , Hubert Łazarczyk  2 , Paweł Litwiński  3 , Sang Wook Kim  4 , Adam Witkowski  1
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Pentafurcation of left main coronary artery

Paweł Tyczyński et al. Postepy Kardiol Interwencyjnej. 2016.
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Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
Angiography. A – Pentafurcation of the left main coronary artery; B – right coronary artery with tandem lesions; C – magnification of image “A”. Significant ostial lesions in the left – anterior descending coronary artery and the intermediate branches
Figure 2
Figure 2
Illustration of sequential steps of percutaneous angioplasty of the left main coronary artery pentafurcation
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