Sternal wound infections in patients after coronary artery bypass grafting using bilateral skeletonized internal mammary arteries

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 229, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 585-590

  Sofer, Dror ^a   Gurevitch, Jacob ^a   Shapira, Itzhak ^a   Paz, Yosef ^a   Matsa, Menachem ^a   Kramer, Amir ^a   Mohr, Rephael ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERNAL MAMMARY ARTERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STERNUM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL MAMMARY-CORONARY ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0033504318     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-199904000-00020     Document Type: Article

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