Blood Supply of the Sternum and Its Importance in Internal Thoracic Artery Harvesting

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 81, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2155-2159

  Berdajs, Denis ^a   Zünd, Gregor ^a   Turina, Marko I ^a   Genoni, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; STERNUM; THORAX WALL; TOPOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CHILD; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LIGATION; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 33646829454     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.01.020     Document Type: Article

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