Surgical staple metalloptysis after apical bullectomy: A reaction to bovine pericardium?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 258-261

  Shamji, Mohammed F ^a   Maziak, Donna E ^a   Shamji, Farid M ^a   Matzinger, Frederick R K ^a   Perkins, D Garth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLLAGEN; DACRON; POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATTLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMPHYSEMA; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; MALE; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; STAPLER; SUTURE; TRACHEOBRONCHIAL TREE;

ADULT; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; FOREIGN-BODY REACTION; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; PERICARDIUM; PNEUMONECTOMY; SUTURES;

EID: 0036307755     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)03541-5     Document Type: Article

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