Sternal reconstruction with synthetic mesh and metallic plates for high grade tumours of the chest wall

European Journal of Surgery

Volumn 168, Issue 8-9, 2002, Pages 494-499

  Briccoli, Antonio ^a   Manfrini, Marco ^a   Rocca, Michele ^a   Lari, Stefano ^b   Giacomini, Stefano ^a   Mercuri, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Neoplasm; Polypropylene mesh; Sternum; Titanium plate

Indexed keywords

MARLEX; POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ANGIOSARCOMA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BONE PLATE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER GRADING; CHONDROSARCOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EWING SARCOMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY CARCINOMA; LENGTH OF STAY; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MALIGNANT FIBROUS HISTIOCYTOMA; MORBIDITY; MUSCLE FLAP; OSTEOSARCOMA; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNUM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX WALL TUMOR; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, RENAL CELL; CHONDROSARCOMA; FEMALE; HEMANGIOSARCOMA; HISTIOCYTOMA, BENIGN FIBROUS; HUMANS; LIPOSARCOMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; OSTEOSARCOMA; POLYPROPYLENES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SARCOMA; SARCOMA, EWING'S; STERNUM; SURGICAL MESH; THORACIC NEOPLASMS; THORACIC WALL; THORACOPLASTY;

EID: 0036913545     PISSN: 11024151     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/110241502321116523     Document Type: Article

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