Exclusive Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting in Triple-Vessel-Disease Patients: Angiographic Control

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2098-2102

  Azmoun, Alexandre ^a   Ramadan, Ramzi ^a   Al Attar, Nawwar ^a   Kortas, Chokri ^a   Ghostine, Said ^a   Caussin, Christophe ^a   Bourachot, Marie Laure ^a   Lancelin, Bernard ^a   Slama, Michel ^b   Nottin, Remi ^a  

^a CENTRE CHIRURGICAL MARIE LANNELONGUE   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ANTOINE BÉCLÈRE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; VASCULAR PATENCY;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 34249008457     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.02.032     Document Type: Article

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