An evaluation of histomorphometric properties of coronary arteries, saphenous vein, and various arterial conduits for coronary artery bypass grafting

Surgery Today

Volumn 33, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 725-730

  Ünlü, Yahya ^a,b   Keleş, Papatya ^a   Keleş, Sait ^a   Yeşilyurt, Hakki ^a   Koçak, Hikmet ^a   Diyarbakirli, Semih ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Numune Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conduit; Coronary artery; Coronary artery bypass grafting

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY TONE; ARTERY WALL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TISSUE SECTION;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CADAVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; THORACIC ARTERIES; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0141563525     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-003-2586-3     Document Type: Article

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