Why did you not use both internal thoracic arteries?

Circulation

Volumn 126, Issue 25, 2012, Pages 2915-2917

  Puskas, John D ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAMMARY ARTERY; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE INTERNAL THORACIC ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE;

EID: 84871292039     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.150383     Document Type: Review

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