The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 4 , Pages 868-873 , April 2010

Angiographic outcomes of right internal thoracic artery grafts in situ or as free grafts in coronary artery bypass grafting

  • Toshihiro Fukui, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress for reprints: Toshihiro Fukui, MD, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sakakibara Heart Institute, 3-16-1 Asahi-cho, Fuchu City, Tokyo 183-0003, Japan.
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  • Minoru Tabata, MD, MPH

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan
    • ,
  • Susumu Manabe, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Tomoki Shimokawa, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan
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  • Satoshi Morita, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Yokohama City University Medical Center, Yokohama, Japan
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  • Shuichiro Takanashi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sakakibara Heart Institute, Tokyo, Japan

Received 9 March 2009 ,Revised 1 May 2009 ,Accepted 31 May 2009.

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 Disclosures: None.

PII: S0022-5223(09)00811-3

doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.05.033

The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Volume 139, Issue 4 , Pages 868-873 , April 2010

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