The dilemma of skeletonized internal thoracic artery sequential bypass versus proximal pedicled in situ internal thoracic artery plus coronary-coronary free internal thoracic artery bypass for multiple lesions of the left anterior descending coronary artery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1810-1812

  Nežić, Duško G ^a,b   Knežević, Aleksandar M ^a,b   Ćirković, Milan V ^a,b   Nešković, Vojislava Č ^a,b   Vuković, Petar M ^a,b   Nešković, Aleksandar N ^a,b  

^a Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute ^*

^b Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute   (Yugoslavia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY LESION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONVALESCENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 2642553197     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2003.12.020     Document Type: Article

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