Influence of Bilateral Skeletonized Harvesting on Occurrence of Deep Sternal Wound Infection in 1,000 Consecutive Patients Undergoing Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 237, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 277-280

  Pevni, Dmitry ^a,b   Mohr, Rephael ^a   Lev Run, Oren ^a   Locer, Chaim ^a   Paz, Yosef ^a   Kramer, Amir ^a   Shapira, Itzhak ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA CLAMPING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; STERNUM; STROKE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; MAMMARY ARTERY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAMMARY ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING;

EID: 0037315609     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200302000-00018     Document Type: Article

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