"Angioplasty, Balloon" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Use of a balloon catheter for dilation of an occluded artery. It is used in treatment of arterial occlusive diseases, including renal artery stenosis and arterial occlusions in the leg. For the specific technique of BALLOON DILATION in coronary arteries, ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY is available.
| Descriptor ID |
D000800
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.148.050.060 E04.100.814.529.124.060 E04.800.382.124.060
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| Concept/Terms |
Angioplasty, Balloon- Angioplasty, Balloon
- Dilation, Transluminal Arterial
- Arterial Dilation, Transluminal
- Arterial Dilations, Transluminal
- Dilations, Transluminal Arterial
- Transluminal Arterial Dilation
- Transluminal Arterial Dilations
- Balloon Angioplasty
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 2008 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2010 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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