Skeletonized Gastroepiploic Artery as a Composite Graft for Total Arterial Revascularization Sang-Wan Ryu, MD, Byoung-Hee Ahn, MD, PhD, Suk-Jung Choo, MD, PhD, Kook-Ju Na, MD, PhD, Young-Keun Ahn, MD, PhD, Myung-Ho Jeong, MD, PhD, Sang-Hyung Kim, MD, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 80, Issue 1, Pages 118-123 (July 2005) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.02.008 Copyright © 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 A skeletonized gastroepiploic artery. After the artery is evaluated by finger palpation, the anterior layer of the great omentum, its satellite veins, and its gastric and omental branches are divided with electrocautery and hemoclips (later using the ultrasonic scapel). The harvested graft is wrapped with gauze soaked in warm diluted papaverine saline solution until use. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2005 80, 118-123DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2005.02.008) Copyright © 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions