Technical aspects and outcome of in situ right internal thoracic artery grafting to the major branches of the circumflex artery via the transverse sinus

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1485-1490

  Ura, Masashi ^a   Sakata, Ryuzo ^a   Nakayama, Yoshihiro ^a   Arai, Yoshio ^a   Oshima, Shuichi ^a   Noda, Katsuo ^a   Kitaoka, Mitsuhiko ^a  

^a Kumamoto Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEART ARREST, INDUCED; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035023101     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(01)02496-1     Document Type: Article

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