Pressure-Diameter Relationship in the Human Greater Saphenous Vein

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1533-1538

  Stooker, Wim ^a   Gök, Murat ^b   Sipkema, Pieter ^b   Niessen, Hans W M ^b   Baidoshvili, Alexi ^b   Westerhof, Nico ^b   Jansen, Evert K ^b   Wildevuur, Charles R H ^b   Eijsman, Léon ^b  

^a ONZE LIEVE VROUWE GASTHUIS   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE;

ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELASTICITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GRAFT PATENCY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IN VITRO STUDY; LEG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; VEIN COMPLIANCE; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN WALL; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 0242468640     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00896-8     Document Type: Article

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