Recycling of arterial grafts during reoperative coronary artery operations

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 641-644

  Noirhomme, Philippe H ^a   Underwood, Malcolm J ^a   El Khoury, Gebrine A ^a   Glineur, David ^a   Elias, Badwi ^a   D'Udekem, Yves ^a   Dion, Robert A ^a  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION;

EID: 0032962801     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)01252-1     Document Type: Article

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