The pneumatic tourniquet technique for endoscopic radial artery harvest

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 495-498

  Miles, Ronald H ^a,b   Kollpainter, Robert E ^a   Riveron, Fernando A ^a   Johnkoski, John A ^a  

^a Wausau Heart Institute   (United States)

^b Wausau Heart and Lung Surgeons   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARM; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY RECANALIZATION; CUFF; DONOR; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; RADIAL ARTERY; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOURNIQUET; VASOSPASM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOSCOPY; ARM; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERMITTENT PNEUMATIC COMPRESSION DEVICES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TOURNIQUETS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 9744222552     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0886-0440.2004.04099.x     Document Type: Article

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