A new method for the treatment of graft infection in the thoracic aorta: In situ preservation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1994-1996

  Nakajima, Nobuyuki ^a   Masuda, Masahisa ^a   Ichinose, Masaharu ^a   Ando, Motomi ^b  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA SURGERY; ASCENDING AORTA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; MORTALITY; MUSCLE; OMENTUM; PLEURA CAVITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACIC AORTA; THORAX SURGERY; TISSUE FLAP; WOUND CARE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND IRRIGATION;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DISINFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0032957299     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00358-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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