New material for reconstruction of the anterior chest wall, including the sternum

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1212-1214

  Watanabe, Atsushi ^a   Watanabe, Toshiaki ^b   Obama, Takuro ^b   Ohsawa, Hisayoshi ^b   Mawatari, Tooru ^b   Ichimiya, Yasunori ^b   Takahashi, Noriyuki ^b   Abe, Tomio ^b  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; BONE PROSTHESIS; BONE RESECTION; BREAST CANCER; CASE REPORT; DEVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MASTECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNUM; THORAX WALL RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 0142213794     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5223(03)00933-4     Document Type: Article

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