Microfibrillar collagen (avitene) and antibiotic-containing fibrin-glue after median sternotomy

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 110-111

  Watanabe, Go ^a   Misaki, Takuro ^a   Kotoh, Keijyu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; MICROCRYSTALLINE COLLAGEN; VANCOMYCIN;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; STERNOTOMY; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 0030800731     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.1997.tb00104.x     Document Type: Article

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