Right internal thoracic artery remodeling 18 years after circumflex system grafting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1072-1074

  Puig, Luiz B ^a,b   Soares, Paulo R ^a   Platania, Fernando ^a   Dallan, Luís A O ^a   Lisboa, Luiz A F ^a   Kajita, Luiz J ^a   Ramires, José A F ^a   Oliveira, Sérgio A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD;

EID: 1442324628     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)01211-6     Document Type: Article

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