Instrumentation for minimally invasive internal thoracic artery harvest

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 6 SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Qaqish, Nabil K ^a   Pagni, Sebastian ^a   Spence, Paul A ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY;

HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACIC ARTERIES; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0030875176     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00425-6     Document Type: Article

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