Optical Coherence Tomography Imaging as a Quality Assurance Tool for Evaluating Endoscopic Harvest of the Radial Artery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1271-1277

  Burris, Nicholas S ^a   Brown, Emile N ^a   Grant, Michael ^a   Kon, Zachary N ^a   Gibber, Marc ^a   Gu, Junyen ^a   Schwartz, Kimberly ^a   Kallam, Seeta ^a   Joshi, Ashish ^b   Vitali, Richard ^c   Poston, Robert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^c ST MICHAEL S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTICLE; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY SPASM; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISSECTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIAL ARTERY; SCREENING TEST; SURGICAL PATIENT;

AGED; CADAVER; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROBABILITY; QUALITY CONTROL; RADIAL ARTERY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 40749129947     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.12.044     Document Type: Article

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