Correlation of wound pain following open heart surgery (median sternotomy) and sternum misalignment assessed using X-ray computed tomography

International Journal of Angiology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 159-163

  Tamiya, Eiji ^a   Asakawa, Masako ^a   Shibamoto, Masaaki ^a   Ito, Nobuhiko ^a   Ikenouchi, Hiroshi ^a   Hada, Yoshiyuki ^a   Tanaka, Kimihiro ^a   Murota, Yoshihiro ^a   Ando, Takeshi ^a   Furuse, Akira ^a   Asano, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a JR Tokyo General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; WIRE FIXATION;

EID: 0033914302     PISSN: 10611711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01616498     Document Type: Article

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