Early experience with robotically assisted internal thoracic artery harvest

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 52-57

  Boyd, W Douglas ^a   Kiaii, Bob ^a   Kodera, Kojiro ^a   Rayman, Reiza ^a   Abu Khudair, Walid ^a   Fazel, Shafie ^a   Dobkowski, Wojciech B ^a   Ganapathy, Sugantha ^a   Jablonsky, George ^a   Novick, Richard J ^a  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endoscopic; Harmonic scalpel; Robotic; Telemanipulation; Thoracoscopic

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROBOTICS; THORACIC ARTERIES; THORACIC SURGERY, VIDEO-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 0036179638     PISSN: 10517200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00019509-200202000-00009     Document Type: Article

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