Paramedian sternal bone plate reinforcement and wiring for difficult sternotomy wounds

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 464-467

  Smoot, E Clyde ^a,b   Weiman, Darryl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STAINLESS STEEL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; BONE PLATES; BONE WIRES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; STAINLESS STEEL; STERNUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031729751     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-199811000-00002     Document Type: Article

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