Anterior intercostal nerve damage after coronary artery bypass graft surgery with use of internal thoracic artery graft

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1455-1458

  Mailis, Angela ^a,b   Umana, Margarita ^a   Feindel, Christopher M ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERCOSTAL NERVE; INTERVIEW; MALE; NERVE INJURY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; THORAX PAIN;

AGED; CHEST PAIN; HUMANS; INTERCOSTAL NERVES; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0033918869     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01186-3     Document Type: Article

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