A descriptive analysis of a series of patients diagnosed with acute mediastinitis;Análisis descriptivo de una serie de casos diagnosticados de mediastinitis aguda

Archivos de Bronconeumologia

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 428-430

  Macri P ^a   Jimenez M F ^a   Novoa, N ^a   Varela, G ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acute Mediastinitis; Complications; Morbidity; Mortality; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESOPHAGOGASTROSTOMY; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; HUMAN; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; OROPHARYNX; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNOTOMY; THORAX DISEASE;

EID: 0042193171     PISSN: 03002896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13050633     Document Type: Article

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