Free right internal thoracic artery composite graft: An option in left anterior descending artery grafting?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 2208-2209

  Pevni, Dmitry ^a   Mohr, Rephael ^a   Uretzky, Gideon ^a   Lev Ran, Oren ^a   Paz, Josef ^a   Kramer, Amir ^a   Shapira, Itzhak ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM;

ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAMMARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

HUMANS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 0036898957     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03930-9     Document Type: Article

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