Communication between a nongrafted left internal mammary artery and left anterior descending coronary artery following saphenous vein bypass grafting

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 170-172

  Salachas, Anastassios ^a,b   Antonellis, Ioannis ^a   Margaris, Nicolaos ^a   Ifantis, George ^a   Moustakas, Ippokratis ^a   Tsoukas, Antonios ^a   Tavernarakis, Antonios ^a  

^a EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

collaterals; left internal mammary artery; saphenous vein bypass

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT;

AGED; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SAPHENOUS VEIN;

EID: 0031016929     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199702)40:2<170::AID-CCD11>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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