Radial Artery Harvesting for Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting: A Stepwise-Made Decision

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 828-831

  Vuković, Petar M ^a   Radak, Sandra S ^a   Perić, Miodrag S ^a   NeŞić, Duško G ^a   KneŞević, Aleksandar M ^a  

^a Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; CIRCULATION; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE OXIMETRY; RADIAL ARTERY; SAFETY; ULNAR ARTERY;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIMETRY; RADIAL ARTERY; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; ULNAR ARTERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER;

EID: 49649083366     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.04.086     Document Type: Article

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