Vacuum-assisted closure for sternal wounds: A first-line therapeutic management approach

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 1035-1040

  Agarwal, Jayant P ^a,b   Ogilvie, Michael ^a,b   Wu, Liza C ^a,b   Lohman, Robert F ^a,b   Gottlieb, Lawrence J ^a,b   Franczyk, Mietka ^a,b   Song, David H ^a,b  

^a University of Chicago Hospitals ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL COUNT; CATALYST; CHILD; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COLONY FORMATION; COMORBIDITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFANT; KIDNEY FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORTALITY; OPEN REDUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; STERNUM; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BONE PLATES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; DIABETIC ANGIOPATHIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VACUUM; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 24944484995     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000178401.52143.32     Document Type: Review

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