Low-grade intimal hyperplasia in internal mammary and right gastroepiploic arteries as bypass grafts

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 706-708

  Van Son, Jacques A M ^a   Falk, Volkmar ^a   Walther, Thomas ^a   Smedts, Frank M ^a   Mohr, Friedrich W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT;

AGED; ARTERIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; OMENTUM; STOMACH; TUNICA INTIMA;

EID: 0030938249     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(96)01113-7     Document Type: Article

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