Large vessel - Sternum adhesion after cardiac surgery; a risk-factor analysis

Surgery Today

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 596-601

  Yamauchi, Takashi ^a   Miyamoto, Yuji ^b   Ichikawa, Hajime ^a   Takano, Hiroshi ^a   Sawa, Yoshiki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b HYOGO COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Adhesion; Resternotomy; Risk factors of resternotomy; Sternum

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; ADULT; AORTA INJURY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART SURGERY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REOPERATION; RESTERNOTOMY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADHESIONS; ADULT; AORTA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; STERNUM; TISSUE ADHESIONS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33745509920     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-006-3187-8     Document Type: Article

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