Exposing the circumflex coronary artery: The heartflip technique

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 1019-1020

  Splittgerber, Fred H ^a   Friedrich, Ivar ^b   Falk, Beate ^b   Kroncke, George ^b   Talbert, Joseph G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0029928446     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(95)01156-0     Document Type: Article

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