Optimum drainage method in descending necrotizing mediastinitis

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 189-192

  Inoue, Yoshimasa ^a   Gika, Masatoshi ^a   Nozawa, Keijiro ^a   Ikeda, Yoshifumi ^a   Takanami, Iwao ^a  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Drainage; Infection; Mediastinitis; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING NECROTIZING MEDIASTINITIS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 24744445348     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2004.105395     Document Type: Article

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