Conversion to full sternotomy during minimal-access cardiac surgery: Reasons and results during a 9.5-year experience

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 165-169

  Tabata, Minoru ^a   Umakanthan, Ramanan ^a   Khalpey, Zain ^a   Aranki, Sary F ^a   Couper, Gregory S ^a   Cohn, Lawrence H ^a   Shekar, Prem S ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FATALITY; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34250727589     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.01.077     Document Type: Article

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