The biocompound method in coronary artery bypass operations: Surgical technique and 3-year patency

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1536-1540

  Zurbrügg, Heinz Robert ^a,b   Knollmann, Friedrich ^a   Musci, Michele ^a   Wied, Markus ^a   Bauer, Matthias ^a   Chavez, Tito ^a   Krukenberg, Andreas ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a  

^a Deutsches Heizzentrum Berlin   (Germany)

^b DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CONFERENCE PAPER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL;

AGED; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SURVIVAL RATE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0033766760     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01997-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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