Primary or Delayed Closure for the Treatment of Poststernotomy Wound Infections?

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 310-314

  Fleck, Tatjana M ^a   Koller, Rupert ^a   Giovanoli, Pietro ^a   Moidl, Reinhard ^a   Czerny, Martin ^a   Fleck, Michael ^a   Wolner, Ernst ^a   Grabenwoger, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; DELAYED WOUND CLOSURE; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIMARY WOUND CLOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STERNOTOMY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AUSTRIA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STERNUM; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1542343988     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000105524.75597.e0     Document Type: Article

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