Less invasive radial artery harvesting without endoscopy.
We describe a less invasive technique to harvest the radial artery for coronary artery bypass grafting without using endoscopes, in which the radial artery was harvested through 2 or 3 wounds of 2.5 cm in respective length.
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine (E1), 2-2 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. shunsaito@ymail.plala.or.jp
Shunsuke
S
Saito
Goro
G
Matsumiya
Taichi
T
Sakaguchi
Takayosi
T
Ueno
Toru
T
Kuratani
Yoshiki
Y
Sawa
D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass; D019723:Endoscopes; D004724:Endoscopy; D006801:Humans; D017534:Radial Artery; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods*