The skeletonized internal mammary artery.
The internal mammary artery increasingly is being used to construct multiple distal anastomoses. By skeletonizing the pedicle, the artery is functionally lengthened and sequential anastomoses are easier to perform.
D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D004564:Electrocoagulation; D006801:Humans; D008323:Mammary Arteries / Q000637:transplantation*; D013895:Thoracic Arteries / Q000637:transplantation*