Skeletonized Internal Thoracic Artery Harvest Reduces Pain and Dysesthesia and Improves Sternal Perfusion After Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Within-Patient Comparison

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• Publication year

  2006

• Venue

  Circulation

• Publication date

  2006-08-22

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.615427PMID 16908767
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