New Strategy for Treatment of MRSA Mediastinitis: One-Stage Procedure for Omental Transposition and Closed Irrigation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 2104-2106

  Hirata, Nobuaki ^a   Hatsuoka, Shinichi ^a   Amemiya, Akira ^a   Ueno, Takayoshi ^a   Kosakai, Yoshio ^a  

^a Takarazuka Municipal Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMPHENICOL; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISSECTING ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAVAGE; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OMENTUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNUM; WOUND CLOSURE;

EID: 0344233301     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00744-6     Document Type: Article

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