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Volume 135, Issue 1 , Pages 32-37 , January 2008

Sternal microcirculation after skeletonized versus pedicled harvesting of the internal thoracic artery: A randomized study

Hiroyuki Kamiya, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Payam Akhyari, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Andreas Martens, MD
- Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Matthias Karck, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Axel Haverich, MD
- Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Artur Lichtenberg, MD
- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
- Address for reprints: Artur Lichtenberg, MD, Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany.