Endoscopic harvesting of radial artery graft for coronary artery bypass

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 459-463

  Uchida, Akiko ^b   Hochberg, Julio ^a   Terada, Yasushi ^c   Fukuda, Ikuo ^c   Cruzzavala, Jose ^a   Gonzalez Cruz, Roberto ^a   Vicente, Marco ^a   Nakayama, Yoshio ^c  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SKIN FLAP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0031789218     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199811000-00001     Document Type: Article

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