Ultrasound mini-transducer with malleable handle for coronary artery surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 322-326

  Budde, Ricardo P J ^a   Bakker, Patricia F A ^a   Meijer, Rudy ^a   Borst, Cornelius ^a   Gründeman, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

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Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY CALCIFICATION; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; DEVICE; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSDUCER; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULTRASOUND;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MINIATURIZATION; PERICARDIUM; SAPHENOUS VEIN; TRANSDUCERS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROTOPIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 29144520490     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.06.067     Document Type: Article

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