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Minimally Invasive Axillary– Coronary Artery Bypass

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1 Minimally Invasive Axillary– Coronary Artery Bypass
Wade L. Knight, MD, Clinton E. Baisden, MD, Charles G. Reiter, MD  The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  Volume 63, Issue 6, Pages (June 1997) DOI: /S (97)

2 Fig. 1 Exposure of the left axillary artery for axillary–coronary bypass. (A) A transverse incision just below the clavicle is only 6 or 7 cm in length. (B) Pectoralis major muscle is divided in the direction of its fibers and the pectoralis minor muscle is retracted laterally, exposing the axillary vessels. (C) The reversed saphenous vein coronary graft is tunneled behind the pectoralis major medial to the pectoralis minor and anastomosed to the left axillary artery. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery  , DOI: ( /S (97) )


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