Radial artery in CABG: Could the early results be comparable to internal mammary artery graft?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1631-1636

  Bhan, Anil ^a   Gupta, Vivek ^a   Choudhary, Shiv Kumar ^a   Sharma, Rajesh ^a   Singh, Balbir ^a   Aggarwal, Rajiv ^a   Bhargava, Balram ^a   Sharma, Ashutosh V ^a   Venugopal, Panangipalli ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NIFEDIPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; REVASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0033059768     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00223-4     Document Type: Article

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