Skeletonized right gastroepiploic artery used for coronary artery bypass grafting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 240-242

  Gagliardotto, Piervincenzo ^a   Coste, Philippe ^a   Lazreg, Mokhtar ^a   Dor, Vincent ^a  

^a Centre Cardio Thoracique de Monaco   (Monaco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISSECTION; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

ABDOMINAL MUSCLES; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; ARTERIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DISSECTION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OMENTUM; PAPAVERINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 0032127512     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00403-2     Document Type: Article

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