Comparison of right internal thoracic artery and right gastroepiploic artery y grafts anastomosed to the left internal thoracic artery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 744-752

  Cho, Kwang Ree ^a   Hwang, Ho Young ^b   Kim, Jun Sung ^b   Jeong, Dong Seop ^b   Kim, Ki Bong ^b  

^a Cheju Halla General Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTERY Y GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPOSITE GRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORTALITY; OFF PUMP CORONARY SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ANASTOMOSIS; MAMMARY ARTERY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGERY; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS, OFF-PUMP; FEMALE; GASTROEPIPLOIC ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77956135634     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.03.109     Document Type: Article

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