Increased Graft Occlusion or String Sign in Composite Arterial Grafting for Mildly Stenosed Target Vessels

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 683-687

  Manabe, Susumu ^a   Fukui, Toshihiro ^a   Shimokawa, Tomoki ^a   Tabata, Minoru ^a   Katayama, Yuzo ^a   Morita, Satoshi ^b   Takanashi, Shuichiro ^a  

^a SAKAKIBARA HEART INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY TRANSPLANTATION; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY;

AGED; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; CORONARY RESTENOSIS; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; RADIAL ARTERY;

EID: 76749118498     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.11.053     Document Type: Article

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