Matrix Metalloproteinase Hypothesis of Plaque Rupture
- 16 October 2001
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 104 (16) , 1878-1880
- https://doi.org/10.1161/circ.104.16.1878
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