Comparative study of harvest-site complications following coronary artery bypass grafting between the radial artery and the saphenous vein in identical patients

Surgery Today

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 711-713

  Hata, Mitsumasa ^a   Shiono, Motomi ^a   Sezai, Akira ^a   Iida, Mitsuru ^a   Saitoh, Akira ^a   Hattori, Tsutomu ^a   Wakui, Shinji ^a   Soeda, Masao ^a   Negishi, Nanao ^a   Sezai, Yukiyasu ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Radial artery; Saphenous vein graft; Surgical site complication

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; LEG; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIAL ARTERY; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK FACTORS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 23944519719     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-005-3033-4     Document Type: Article

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