Gauze swabs left intrapericardially following cardiac surgery

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 825-827

  Alotti, N ^a,c   Kecskes G ^a   Simon, J ^a   Tomcsanyi J ^b   Papp, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b NATIONAL KORANYI INSTITUTE OF PULMONOLOGY   (Hungary)

^c Zala County Hospital   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Foreign bodies; Heart surgery; Postoperative complications; Surgical sponges

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SPONGE;

CHILD; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALPRACTICE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; SURGICAL SPONGES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0033401131     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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