Comorbidity trends in patients requiring sternectomy and reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 264-268

  Ahumada, Leonik A ^a   De La Torre, Jorge I ^a,b   Ray, Peter D ^a   Espinosa De Los Monteros, Antonio ^a   Long, James N ^a   Grant III, John H ^a   Gardner, Paul M ^a   Fix, R Jobe ^a   Vásconez, Luis O ^a  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Flap; Gender; Mediastinitis; Sternectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MORTALITY; PECTORALIS ADVANCEMENT FLAP; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX RATIO; SKIN FLAP; STERNAL WOUND; STERNECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 14044267604     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000153096.12780.19     Document Type: Review

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