Intraoperative and histochemical comparison of the skeletonized and pedicled internal thoracic artery

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 107-110

  Kandemir, Ozer ^a,b   Buyukates, Mustafa ^a   Gun, Banu Dogan ^a   Turan, S Akin ^a   Tokmakoglu, Hilmi ^a  

^a ZONGULDAK KARAELMAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Zonguldak Karaelmas Universitesi Tip Fakultesi   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIAL NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ADULT; ADVENTITIA; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEVASCULARIZATION; ENDOTHELIUM CELL; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDICLED INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SKELETONIZED INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY; VASA VASORUM; ANASTOMOSIS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; MAMMARY ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 34247365470     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20061196     Document Type: Article

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