The Infected Median Sternotomy Wound: Management with the Rectus Abdominis Musculocutaneous Flap

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 367-370

  Oh, Albert K ^a   Lechtman, Alex N ^a   Whetzel, Thomas P ^a   Stevenson, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; REVIEW; STERNOTOMY; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WOUND; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; STERNUM; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 12444276040     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SAP.0000099710.38299.a3     Document Type: Article

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