Options for the management of poststernotomy mediastinitis

Scandinavian Cardiovascular Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-32

  Satta, Jari ^a,b   Lahtinen, Jarmo ^a   Räisänen, Liisa ^a   Salmela, Esa ^a   Juvonen, Tatu ^a  

^a OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

Muscle flap reconstruction; Poststernotomy mediastinitis; Radical debridement; Timing

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAVAGE; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MUSCLE FLAP; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; STERNOTOMY; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IRRIGATION; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SWEDEN; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0031905187     PISSN: 14017431     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14017439850140319     Document Type: Article

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