Long-term neurologic hand complications after radial artery harvesting using conventional cold and harmonic scalpel techniques

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 535-538

  Moon, Marc R ^a,b   Barner, Hendrick B ^a   Bailey, Marci S ^a   Lawton, Jennifer S ^a   Moazami, Nader ^a   Pasque, Michael K ^a   Damiano Jr , Ralph J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAND DISEASE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PAIN; PARESTHESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SCALPEL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIATHERMY; DISSECTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND; HUMANS; HYPESTHESIA; MALE; MEDIAN NERVE; MIDDLE AGED; PARESTHESIA; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIAL NEUROPATHY; THUMB; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 3242815207     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.01.032     Document Type: Article

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