Complications after radial artery harvesting for coronary artery bypass grafting: Our experience

Surgery

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 283-287

  Budillon, Alessandro Maria ^a   Nicolini, Francesco ^a   Agostinelli, Andrea ^a   Beghi, Cesare ^a   Pavesi, Giovanni ^a   Fragnito, Claudio ^a   Busi, Marzio ^a   Gherli, Tiziano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIMB BLOOD FLOW; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0037349230     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/msy.2003.43     Document Type: Article

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