Free right internal thoracic artery in a "horseshoe" configuration: A new technical approach for "in situ" conduit lengthening

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 583-584

  Zeitani, Jacob ^a   De Peppo, Alfonso Penta ^b   Scafuri, Antonio ^a   Versaci, Francesco ^a   Chiariello, Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LUNG VOLUME; REVASCULARIZATION; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGIOPLASTY; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; HUMANS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 28444448383     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2005.00128.x     Document Type: Article

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