Harvest of the radial artery for coronary artery surgery preserves maximal blood flow of the forearm

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 539-542

  Royse, Alistair G ^a,b   Royse, Colin F ^b   Maleskar, Atul ^a   Garg, Anurag ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; EXERCISE; FOREARM; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; ULNAR ARTERY;

AGED; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; EXERTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREARM; HAND; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT; RADIAL ARTERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ULNAR ARTERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 3242742801     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.02.094     Document Type: Article

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