Thoracoscopic harvest of the internal thoracic artery: A multicenter experience in 218 cases

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1012-1017

  Duhaylongsod, Francis G ^a   Mayfield, William R ^b   Wolf, Randall K ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NERVE INJURY; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; THORACIC ARTERIES; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 0032167463     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00731-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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