Internal thoracic artery side branch ligation for post coronary surgery ischemia

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 339-341

  Tsakiridis, Kosmas ^a   Mikroulis, Dimitrios ^a,b   Didilis, Vassilios ^a   Bougioukas, Georgios ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THALLIUM;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EXERCISE TEST; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART SCINTISCANNING; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 34548490080     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230701500416     Document Type: Article

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