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Technique to protect the internal mammary artery pedicle
C Blanche1, A Santibanez-Gallerani
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, USA.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|December 1, 1995
Abstract:
A simple technique to protect the internal mammary artery pedicle from injury in reoperative sternotomies is described. It consists of a pericardial window created by two pericardial flaps with displacement of the mammary pedicle away from the midline.