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Editorial
. 2016 Nov;8(11):3034-3039.
doi: 10.21037/jtd.2016.11.103.

To complete, or not to complete, that is the question of revascularization in percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents for multivessel disease

Hisato Takagi  1 , Tomo Ando  2 , Takuya Umemoto  1 ; ALICE (All-Literature Investigation of Cardiovascular Evidence) group
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Editorial

To complete, or not to complete, that is the question of revascularization in percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents for multivessel disease

Hisato Takagi et al. J Thorac Dis. 2016 Nov.
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The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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Important subgroup analyses in studies of complete versus incomplete revascularization in percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents for multivessel coronary artery disease (except for acute myocardial infarction).
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