Ten-year experience with mersilene-reinforced sternal wound closure

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 97-99

  Puc, Matthew M ^a   Antinori, Charles H ^a   Villanueva, Dioscoro T ^a   Tarnoff, Michael ^a   Heim, John A ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERSILENE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEDIASTINITIS; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SUTURE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

HUMANS; INCIDENCE; POLYETHYLENE TEREPHTHALATES; STERNUM; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0033943971     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(00)01424-7     Document Type: Article

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