TEXAS HEART INSTITUTE JOURNAL, cilt.41, ss.484-490, 2014 (SCI İndekslerine Giren Dergi)
The internal thoracic artery (ITA) is typically harvested from the chest wall by means of conventional electrocautery. We investigated the effects of electrocautery on endothelial-cell and vessel-wall morphology at the ultrastructural level during ITA harvesting.