Management of sternal and abdominal wounds in a pediatric heart transplant patient

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 102, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 2100-2107

  Low, David W ^a,b   Carman Dillon, Christine A ^a   Gaynor, J William ^a   Acker, Michael A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b 10 Penn Tower ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; BONE GRAFT; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT RIGHT SHUNT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; THORAX INJURY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

EID: 0031773308     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199811000-00045     Document Type: Article

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