Bilateral skeletonized internal thoracic artery graftings in off-pump coronary artery bypass: Early result of Y versus in situ grafts

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 1371-1376

  Kim, Ki Bong ^a   Cho, Kwang Ree ^a   Chang, Woo Ik ^a   Lim, Cheong ^a   Ham, Byung Moon ^a   Kim, Yong Lak ^a  

^a Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0036799143     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0003-4975(02)03974-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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