Coronary arteries bypass grafting with use of both internal thoracic arteries

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 6 SUPPL. 1, 1996, Pages 81-85

  Krejca, M ^a,b   Bochenek, A ^b   Pyt, T S ^a  

^a Upper Silesian Heart Center Katowice   (Poland)

^b Groby Road Hospital   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coronary bypass grafting; Thoracic artery internal; Transthoracic Doppler spectrum analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

CORONARY DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0030308193     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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