Robot-assisted 13 MHz epicardial ultrasound for endoscopic quality assessment of coronary anastomoses

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 616-620

  Budde, Ricardo P J ^a   Dessing, Thomas C ^a   Meijer, Rudy ^a   Bakker, Patricia F A ^a   Borst, Cornelius ^a   Gründeman, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anastomosis; Echocardiography; Robotics; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REOPERATION; ROBOTICS; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL ERROR; SWINE; THORAX; TIME; TRANSDUCER;

EID: 9644281703     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icvts.2004.07.009     Document Type: Article

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