Serious wound infections after minimally invasive coronary bypass procedures

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 92-94

  Pagni, Sebastian ^a   Salloum, Ellis J ^a   Tobin, Gordon R ^a   VanHimbergen, Daniel J ^a   Spence, Paul A ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; BREAST DISEASES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY DISEASE; ENDOSCOPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OBESITY; PATIENT SELECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACIC ARTERIES; THORACOSCOPY; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 0032125755     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(98)00353-1     Document Type: Article

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