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Currently, the main graft materials used for coronary artery bypass grafting are the internal thoracic artery, radial artery, gastroepiploic artery, and saphenous vein. In this section, the characteristics of each graft and its harvesting, as well as essence of ultrasonic complete skeletonization, are described.
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Higami, T., Tachibana, K. (2016). Harvesting: Tip and Pitfalls. In: Asai, T., Ochi, M., Yokoyama, H. (eds) Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54986-4_14
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