Infectious mediastinitis after cardiac operations: Computed tomographic findings

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 622-624

  Misawa, Yoshio ^a   Fuse, Katsuo ^a   Hasegawa, Tsuguo ^a  

^a JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE EROSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; EDEMA; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MEDIASTINITIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; STERNOTOMY; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND IRRIGATION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; HUMANS; MEDIASTINITIS; PLEURAL EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032033324     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)01339-8     Document Type: Article

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