Minimally invasive method of harvesting epigastric arteries

Details Minimally invasive method of harvesting epigastric arteries Minimally invasive method of harvesting epigastric arteries

1998-05-22

2000-04-18

Buiz, Michael

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Blunt dissectors

606192, A61B 1700

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060510137

ABSTRACT:
A laparoscopic technique for harvesting the inferior epigastric artery and removing it from the body. The harvested inferior epigastric artery may be used as a bypass graft in a coronary or peripheral bypass operation.

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Mills, et al., Technique for Use of the Inferior Epigastric Artery as a Coronary Bypass Graft, 51 Ann. Thoracic Surg. 208 (1991).

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