Aortocoronary bypass grafting with expanded polytetrafluoroethylene: 12- year patency

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1442-1444

  McLarty, Allison J ^a   Phillips, Michael R ^a   Holmes Jr , David R ^a   Schaff, Hartzell V ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; GRAFT OCCLUSION; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MALE; POLITEF IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; STENTS; THROMBOSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0032076109     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00031-9     Document Type: Article

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