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We report on a woman with severe peripheral vascular disease with unst
able angina, in which access to the central circulation was not possib
le from a peripheral route, The translumbar approach was used for coro
nary angiography and a successful angioplasty of the left circumflex a
rtery. (C) 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.