A safe and cost-effective approach to minimally invasive radial artery harvesting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 700-703

  Roskoph, Kimberly ^a   Navid, Forozan ^a   Jubeck, Molly ^a   Divito, Richelle ^a   Machiraju, Venkat R ^a   Hong Barco, Pablo ^a   Lima, Claudio A B ^a   Bennett, Robert D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; CELLULITIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DYSESTHESIA; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SAFETY; SATISFACTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND INFECTION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 22544488079     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.08.077     Document Type: Article

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