Limb performance and patient satisfaction after radial artery harvesting: Endoscopic versus open techniques

Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 22, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2638-2642

  Medalion, Benjamin ^a,b   Fuks, Avraham ^a,b   Sharoni, Erez ^a,b   Stamler, Alon ^a,b   Snir, Eitan ^a,b   Vidne, Bernardo ^a,b   Porat, Eyal ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cardio; Endoscopy; Quality of life; Vascular (blood vessels)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM DISEASE; ARM MOVEMENT; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN TECHNIQUE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOREARM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; PARESTHESIA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIAL ARTERY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 56349156929     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-008-9777-3     Document Type: Article

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