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...d a stent-like result afterballoon angioplasty, we should still put in a stent." Looking at the group of patients as a whole, of the 18 percent whoachieved stent-like results, 45 percent had all three of the favorablecharacteristics: gender, size and location of blockage. This represents about42,000 patien...New U-M Analysis Of Brain At Work
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