Persistence of mammary artery branches and blood supply to the left anterior descending artery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1759-1764

  Luise, Raffaele ^b   Teodori, Giovanni ^b   Di Giammarco, Gabriele ^b   D'Annunzio, Erminio ^b   Paloscia, Leonardo ^b   Barsotti, Antonio ^b   Gallina, Sabina ^b   Contini, Marco ^b   Vitolla, Giuseppe ^b   Calafiore, Antonio M ^a  

^a SAN CAMILLO DE LELLIS HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; HYPEREMIA; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; THORACOTOMY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 17344388987     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)00366-4     Document Type: Article

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