A novel one-shot anastomotic stapler prototype for coronary bypass grafting on the beating heart: Feasibility in the pig

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 117-125

  Heijmen, R H ^a   Hinchliffe, P ^a   Borst, C ^a   Verlaan, C W J ^a   Moues, C M ^a   Van der Helm, Y J M ^a   Manzo, S ^a   Jansen, E W L ^a   Grandeman, P F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPLER; SURGICAL STAPLING; SUTURING METHOD; SWINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0032919188     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5223(99)70476-9     Document Type: Article

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