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Pericardial flap to minimize internal mammary artery anastomotic tension
E P Todd1, G F Earle, R Jaggers
1Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington 40536.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|December 1, 1987
Abstract:
A technique is described that decreases tension on the left internal mammary artery anastomosis in patients whose lungs have herniated across the midline.

