Phrenic nerve injury associated with high free right internal mammary artery harvesting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 459-463

  Deng, Yongzhi ^b   Byth, Karen ^b   Paterson, Hugh S ^a  

^a WESTMEAD HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEMIDIAPHRAGM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL RISK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; PHRENIC NERVE; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; RESPIRATORY PARALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0041657466     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00511-3     Document Type: Article

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