Chylothorax following median sternotomy

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 910-912

  Zaidenstein, R ^a,b   Cohen, N ^a,b   Dish, V ^a,b   Alon, I ^a,b   Golik, A ^a,b   Modai, D ^a,b  

^a ASSAF HAROFEH MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

chylothorax; coronary artery bypass grafting; sternotomy

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHYLOTHORAX; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SAPHENOUS VEIN GRAFT; STERNOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0029805850     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960191115     Document Type: Article

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