Current indications for left thoracotomy in coronary revascularization and valvular procedures

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1366-1370

  Pratt, Jerry W ^a   Williams, Thomas E ^a   Michler, Robert E ^a   Brown, David A ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; TREATMENT INDICATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS, PATENT; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; REOPERATION; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0033791222     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01937-8     Document Type: Article

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