Three or more median sternotomies for patients with valve disease: Role of computed tomography

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1476-1480

  Morishita, Kiyofumi ^a   Kawaharada, Nobuyoshi ^a   Fukada, Jhoji ^a   Yamada, Akira ^a   Masaru, Tsukamoto ^a   Kuwaki, Kenji ^a   Abe, Tomio ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FEMOROFEMORAL BYPASS; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; INCISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STERNOTOMY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; ADHESION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEMOSTASIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; STERNUM; THORAX DISEASE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADHESIONS; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMOSTASIS, SURGICAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; STERNUM; THORACIC DISEASES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037406271     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04821-X     Document Type: Article

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