Left thoracotomy for coronary bypass in a patient with pectus excavatum

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1182-1183

  Choghari, Chaouki ^a,b   Heymans, Oliver ^a   Geens, Marcel ^a   Joris, Marc ^a  

^a Hopital Civil de Jumet   (Belgium)

^b NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FUNNEL CHEST; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0030271967     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(96)00496-1     Document Type: Article

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