Preoperative assessment of the radial artery for coronary artery bypass grafting: Is the clinical allen test adequate?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 570-572

  Agrifoglio, Marco ^a   Dainese, Luca ^a   Pasotti, Stefano ^a   Galanti, Andrea ^a   Cannata, Aldo ^a   Roberto, Maurizio ^a   Parolari, Alessandro ^a   Biglioli, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALLEN TEST; ARM BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DYNAMICS; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PERFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; ULNAR ARTERY;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREARM; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RADIAL ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULNAR ARTERY;

EID: 13244295575     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.07.034     Document Type: Article

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