Endoscopic radial artery harvesting for coronary artery bypass grafting: The initial clinical experience and results of the first 50 patients

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Ito, Nobuhisa ^a   Tashiro, Tadashi ^a   Morishige, Noritsugu ^a   Iwahashi, Hidehiko ^a   Nishimi, Masaru ^a   Hayashida, Yoshio ^a   Takeuchi, Kazuma ^a   Minematsu, Noritoshi ^a   Kuwahara, Go ^a   Sukehiro, Yuta ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SKIN NECROSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; RADIAL ARTERY; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77249126929     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: 15226662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20091080     Document Type: Article

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