Sternal wound infection in cardiac surgery. Analysis of one thousand operations;Infección de la herida esternal en la cirugía cardíaca: Análisis de 1.000 intervenciones

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 106, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 401-404

  Cobo, Javier ^a,b   Aguado, J María ^a   Cortina, José ^a   Cobo, Pedro ^a   Del Hierro, J Luis Martín ^a   Rufilanchas, Juan J ^a   Noriega, Antonio R ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GRAM NEGATIVE AEROBIC RODS AND COCCI; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDIASTINITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; OSTEOMYELITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STERNUM; SURGICAL INFECTION; TIME;

BLOOD; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GRAM-NEGATIVE AEROBIC BACTERIA; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIA; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDIASTINITIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0030598543     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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