Off-pump, in situ internal thoracic artery grafting: A durable treatment for single-vessel coronary artery disease

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 814-818

  Vural, Kerem M ^a,b   Iscan, Zafer H ^a   Kunt, Ayşegul ^a   Sener, Erol ^a   Tasdemir, Oguz ^a  

^a TURKIYE YUKSEK IHTISAS HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; THORAX PAIN;

EID: 14244256203     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.08.044     Document Type: Article

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