Open clip-free radial artery harvesting with the harmonic shears

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 139-141

  Canosa, Carlo ^a   Nasso, Giuseppe ^a   De Filippo, Carlo Maria ^a   Modugno, Pietro ^a   Spatuzza, Paola ^a   Calvo, Eugenio ^a   Testa, Nicola ^a   Alessandrini, Francesco ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLIP; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOREARM BLOOD FLOW; HARMONIC SHEAR; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE BLEEDING; MUSCLE SPASM; OPERATION DURATION; RADIAL ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THERMAL INJURY; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOREARM; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 33847371674     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2007.00374.x     Document Type: Article

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