Post-mortem cast angiography in the diagnostics of graft complications in patients with fatal outcome following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 107-114

  Weman, S M ^a   Salminen, U S ^b   Penttila A ^a   Mannikko A ^a   Karhunen, P J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Angiography; Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG); Malpractice; Operative complications; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AUTOPSY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FATALITY; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALPRACTICE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN GRAFT;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERIES; AUTOPSY; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VESSELS; DISSECTION; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL RATE; VEINS;

EID: 0032988855     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004140050211     Document Type: Article

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