Endoscopic radial artery harvest produces equivalent and excellent midterm patency compared with open harvest

Innovations: Technology and Techniques in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 265-269

  Dimitrova, Kamellia R ^a   Hoffman, Darryl M ^a   Geller, Charles M ^a   Decastro, Helbert ^a   Dienstag, Bill ^a   Tranbaugh, Robert F ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CABG; Endoscopic; Radial artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ENDOSCOPIC GRAFT HARVEST; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPEN GRAFT HARVEST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 77956257784     PISSN: 15569845     EISSN: 15590879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IMI.0b013e3181ee93f0     Document Type: Article

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