Median sternotomy wound complication: The effect of reconstruction on lung function

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 36-43

  Cohen, Meir ^a,b   Yaniv, Yona ^a   Weiss, Jerry ^a   Greif, Joel ^a   Gur, Eyal ^a   Wertheym, Eddy ^a   Shafir, Raphael ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FEVER; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; PAIN; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SMOKING; STERNOTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; CICATRIX; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; SPIROMETRY; STERNUM; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0030838536     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199707000-00006     Document Type: Article

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