Does the internal thoracic artery graft have self-reparative ability?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1494-1495

  Kitamura, Soichiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY GRAFT; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; EDITORIAL; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HUMANS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; REGENERATION;

EID: 27944470379     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2005.08.030     Document Type: Editorial

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