aDepartments of Cardiovascular Surgery, and Plastic Surgery, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
bDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Tsukuba Medical Center Hospital, Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract:
With an endoscopic approach we harvested the radial artery as a coronary artery bypass graft, using two transverse 2-cm incisions in the forearm. There were no complications in the forearm and hand. The short-term results of the radial artery graft were good.