Midterm results of free internal thoracic artery grafting for myocardial revascularization

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 4 SUPPL., 1998, Pages 951-954

  Tashiro, Tadashi ^a   Nakamura, Katsuhiko ^a   Sukehiro, Shungo ^a   Nakamura, Masanao ^a   Shibano, Ryuichi ^a   Motomura, Tadashi ^a   Kimura, Michio ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART DEATH; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGINA PECTORIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; THORACIC ARTERIES; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0031921926     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0003-4975(97)01417-3     Document Type: Article

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