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Volume 128, Issue 4 , Pages 617-618 , October 2004

Twisting of pedicled left internal thoracic artery graft three hundred sixty degrees clockwise: Does it change the outcome?

Apurba Kumar Sarma, MCh
- Department of Cardio-vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India
- Address for reprints: Apurba K. Sarma, MCh, Flat No. B2, New Faculty Building, SCT Housing Colony, Kumarapuram, Poonthi Road, Thiruvananthapuram, 695011 Kerala, India
Sai Kiran Krishnamurthy
- Department of Cardio-vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Venkata Sathya Siva, MS
- Department of Cardio-vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Jayakumar Karunakaran, MCh
- Department of Cardio-vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India
Neelakandhan Kurur Sankaran, MCh
- Department of Cardio-vascular and Thoracic Surgery, Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology, Thiruvananthapuram, India

Received 16 January 2004 ,Accepted 27 January 2004.

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