The descending branch of lateral femoral circumflex artery in arterial CABG: Early and midterm results

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1836-1841

  Fabbrocini, Mario ^a   Fattouch, Khalil ^a   Camporini, Glauco ^a   DeMicheli, Gloria ^a   Bertucci, Carla ^a   Cioffi, Paolo ^a   Mercogliano, Domenico ^a  

^a Nuova Casa Cura Citta di Alessandria ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DEATH; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; THIGH; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037974741     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00030-4     Document Type: Article

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