To skeletonize the internal thoracic artery or not? Is that the question?

Circulation

Volumn 114, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 754-756

  Khuri, Shukri F ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; AUTOREGULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC PATIENT; EDITORIAL; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEART DISEASE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG DISEASE; META ANALYSIS; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; WOUND INFECTION;

BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; HUMANS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33747619143     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.646737     Document Type: Editorial

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