Osteomyelitis and mediastinitis complicating blunt sternal fracture

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 594-596

  Rehring, Thomas F ^a,c   Winter, Chris B ^b   Chambers, Jodi A ^b   Bourg, Pamela W ^b   Wachtel, Thomas L ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b St Anthony Central Hospital   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; FIRST AID; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; OSTEOMYELITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIB FRACTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX SCINTISCANNING; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 0032827290     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-199909000-00034     Document Type: Article

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