Endoscopic versus conventional radial artery harvest - Is smaller better?

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 329-335

  Shapira, Oz M ^a,b   Eskenazi, Benjamin R ^a   Hunter, Curtis T ^a   Anter, Elad ^a   Bao, Yusheng ^a   Murphy, Richard ^a   Lazar, Harold L ^a   Shemin, Richard J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; OPERATION DURATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIAL ARTERY; RADIAL NERVE; REOPERATION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SKIN INCISION; STROKE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RADIAL ARTERY; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33745594585     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2006.00266.x     Document Type: Article

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