Robotic skeletonized internal thoracic artery harvesting: The sliding fascia technique

Artificial Organs

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 516-518

  Ishikawa, Norihiko ^a,b   Watanabe, Go ^a,b   Tomita, Shigeyuki ^a   Ushijima, Teruaki ^b   Yamaguchi, Shojiro ^a   Nishida, Satoru ^a   Kikuchi, Yujiro ^b   Kawachi, Kenji ^b  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coronary artery bypass grafting; Harvesting; Internal thoracic artery; Sliding fascia technique

Indexed keywords

HARVESTING; SURGERY;

BLEEDINGS; BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFTING; INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY; INTUITIVE SURGICAL; SLIDING FASCIA TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL SYSTEMS;

ROBOTICS;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAUTERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FASCIA; FORCEPS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROBOTIC SKELETONIZING; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE BLOOD FLOW; DEVICES; MAMMARY ARTERY; PROCEDURES; SURGERY; TRANSPLANTATION;

HUMANS; MAMMARY ARTERIES; ROBOTICS; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 77953177949     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2009.00893.x     Document Type: Article

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