Ultrasonic coagulator for video-assisted internal mammary artery harvest

Surgical Endoscopy

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 82-85

  Ohtsuka, T ^a   Takamoto, S ^a   Endoh, M ^a   Kotsuka, Y ^a   Oka, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Internal mammary artery harvest; Thoracoscopy; Ultrasonic coagulator

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEVICE; DOG; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOSCOPY; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DOGS; ELECTROCOAGULATION; FEMALE; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; THORACOSCOPY; ULTRASONICS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0033986031     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004649900018     Document Type: Article

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