Abdominal recovery after laparotomy and omental transposition into a grossly contaminated median sternotomy wound

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 15-18

  Barnea, Yoav ^a   Cohen, Meir ^b   Giladi, Michael ^b   Gur, Eyal ^b   Greenberg, Ron ^b   Weiss, Jerry ^b   Shafir, Raphael ^b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; ILEUS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; OMENTUM; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0033942024     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000637-200045010-00003     Document Type: Article

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