Muscle flap reconstruction of pediatric poststernotomy wound infections

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 365-370

  Grant, Robert T ^a   Breitbart, Arnold S ^a   Parnell, Vincent ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANGIOGENESIS; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NEWBORN; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; REOPERATION; STERNUM; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031002330     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199704000-00010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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