Angiographic follow-up of internal thoracic artery for free bypass grafting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 731-734

  Masuda, Tomoyuki ^a   Matsuda, Yasuo ^a   Tanimoto, Yoshinori ^a   Sakata, Kensuke ^a   Hayashi, Kenji ^a   Kobayashi, Yurio ^a  

^a Saiseikai Shimonoseki General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THORACIC ARTERIES;

EID: 0032033350     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)01383-0     Document Type: Article

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