Bipedicle muscle flaps in sternal wound repair

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 356-360

  Solomon, Mark P ^a,b   Granick, Mark S ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MUSCLE FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HERNIA; HUMANS; MALE; METHODS; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; STERNUM; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0031908311     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199802000-00013     Document Type: Article

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