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Ann Thorac Surg 2004;78:2036
© 2004 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Original Article: Cardiovascular

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3rd Cardiac Surgery Department, Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, 356 Sygrou Ave, Athens17674, Greece

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Since its introduction in 1987, the use of the right gastroepiploic artery (GEA) as a coronary artery bypass graft has been generally restricted to bypass the right coronary artery (RCA) branches at the inferior myocardial wall due to topographic proximity and graft length limitation. On the basis of clinical and angiographic data, it has been recently suggested that skeletonization of the right GEA graft may . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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