Quality of Internal Thoracic Artery Grafts After Mediastinal Irradiation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1479-1484

  Gansera, Brigitte ^a   Schmidtler, Fabian ^a   Angelis, Ilias ^a   Botzenhardt, Florian ^a   Schuster, Tibor ^b   Kiask, Theodor ^a   Haschemi, Ayman ^a   Kemkes, Bernhard M ^a  

^a Klinische Neurophysiologie und Stroke Unit   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HODGKIN DISEASE; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; JOINT INSTABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTECTOMY; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINUM; MORPHOMETRICS; MORTALITY; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STERNUM; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN GRAFT;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MEDIASTINUM; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 35348970414     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.06.034     Document Type: Article

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