Histologic study of coronary, radial, ulnar, epigastric and internal thoracic arteries: Application to coronary artery bypass grafts

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 297-302

  Barry, M ^a,b   Touati, G ^a,b   Chardon, K ^a   Laude, M ^a   Libert, J P ^a   Sevestre, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^b AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Arteries; Histology; Coronary bypass; Grafts; Human; Morphometry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; EPIGASTRIC ARTERY; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SYMPATHETIC NERVE; ULNAR ARTERY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIES; BIOMETRY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY VESSELS; EPIGASTRIC ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; THORACIC ARTERIES; ULNAR ARTERY; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 34249897212     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-007-0214-4     Document Type: Article

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