Single-vessel revascularization with minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass: Minithoracotomy or ministernotomy?

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Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-52

  Niinami, Hiroshi ^a   Ogasawara, Hidetsugu ^a   Suda, Yuji ^a   Takeuchi, Yasuo ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Beating heart; Coronary artery bypass surgery; Minimally invasive surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN INCISION; STERNOTOMY; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SURGICAL APPROACH; THORACOTOMY; WOUND DEHISCENCE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; STERNUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 13844311286     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.127.1.47     Document Type: Article

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