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Endoscopic harvesting of the radial artery as a coronary artery bypass graft
1Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki-ken, Japan.
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
|February 4, 1999
Abstract:
With an endoscopic approach we harvested the radial artery as a coronary artery bypass graft, using two transverse 2-cm incisions in the forearm. There were no complications in the forearm and hand. The short-term results of the radial artery graft were good.