Intraoperative monitoring of IMA flow: What does it mean?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 6 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Barnea, Ofer ^b   Santamore, William P ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0030829367     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)83842-8     Document Type: Article

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