Sternal wound reconstruction: 252 Consecutive cases. The Lenox Hill experience

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 44-48

  Schulman, Norman H ^a,b   Subramanian, Valavanur ^a,b  

^a Lenox Hill Hospital ^*  (United States)

^b LENOX HILL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; SEROMA; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WOUND CLOSURE; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RADIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL INFECTION;

HEMATOMA; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 3142660463     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000127793.77267.DA     Document Type: Article

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