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Steal phenomenon caused by a parallel branch of the internal mammary artery
C Schmid1, B Heublein, S Reichelt
1Department of Surgery, Hannover Medical School, West Germany.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|September 1, 1990
Abstract:
We report on a patient with postoperative mammary artery steal resulting from a parallel branch of the vessel as well as from a patent first left intercostal artery, both of which had not been divided. The patient was cured of angina pectoris after embolization of both vessels.