Unsuspected idiopathic mediastinal fibrosis complicating coronary bypass operation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 224-225

  Aleksic, Ivan ^a   Saldaña, Federico ^a   Busch, Thomas ^a   Basenau, Daniela ^a   Sîrbu, Horia ^a   Schauer, Alfred ^a   Dalichau, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MEDIASTINUM DISEASE; MEDIASTINUM FIBROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME;

AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MEDIASTINUM;

EID: 0032990454     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)01078-9     Document Type: Article

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