Technical aspects of harvesting the radial artery with the Harmonic Scalpel

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 345-347

  Locker, C ^a   Ben Gal, Y ^a   Paz, Y ^a   Lev Ran, O ^a   Nesher, N ^a   Uretzky, G ^a   Mohr, Rephael ^a   Shapira, I ^a  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; PHENTOLAMINE MESYLATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY SPASM; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DISSECTION; FASCIOTOMY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SCALPEL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASODILATATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; RADIAL ARTERY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0142186135     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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