Arterial graft patency in coronary artery bypass grafting: What do we really know?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1055-1059

  Mack, Michael J ^a,b   Osborne, John A ^a   Shennib, Hani ^a  

^a MEDICAL CITY DALLAS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; GRAFT PATENCY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032167742     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00815-7     Document Type: Article

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