Angiographic 5-year follow-up study of right gastroepiploic artery grafts

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 501-505

  Voutilainen, Sari ^a   Verkkala, Kalervo ^a   Järvinen, Antero ^a   Keto, Pekka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0030219078     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(96)00279-2     Document Type: Article

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