The Use of Preoperative Noninvasive Vascular Studies for the Evaluation of Radial Artery Conduits for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 249-253

  Wolk, Seth W ^a,c   Moores, Harold K ^a   Lampman, Richard M ^a   Misare, Bruce D ^a   Erlandson, Errol E ^a   Kong, Bobby K ^a   Fowler, Jennifer J ^a   Page, Jeanne M ^a   Babcock, Shelly L ^a   Whitehouse, Walter M ^b  

^a St Joseph Mercy Hospital ^*

^b ST JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Michigan Heart and Vascular Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISCHEMIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOELECTRIC PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RADIAL ARTERY; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 1842816556     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/153857449803200308     Document Type: Article

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