Is the graftconnector a valid alternative to running suture in end-to-side coronary arteries anastomoses?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2001, Pages S999-S1003

  Tozzi, Piergiorgio ^a,b   Solem, Jan Otto ^a,b   Boumzebra, D ^a,b   Mucciolo, Antonio ^a,b   Genton, Claude Y ^a,b   Chaubert, Pascal ^a,b   von Segesser, Ludwig Karl ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEVICE; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; GRAFT PATENCY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHEEP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANIMALS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY VESSELS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FLUOROSCOPY; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; SHEEP; STENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0034843748     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)02953-8     Document Type: Article

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