Robotic skeletonizing of the internal thoracic artery: Is it safe?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1262-1265

  Bolotin, Gil ^a,b   Scott Jr , Walter W ^a   Austin, Trevor C ^a   Charland, Patrick J ^a   Kypson, Alan P ^a   Nifong, L Wiley ^a   Salleng, Kenneth ^a   Chitwood Jr , W Randolph ^a  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

28

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DOG; ENDOTHELIUM INJURY; ERROR; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HISTOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTICS; SAFETY; SKELETONIZED INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY GRAFT; STANDARD; THORAX;

ANIMALS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; DOGS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; ROBOTICS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 1842480328     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2003.09.074     Document Type: Article

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