Sternal Stability at Different Negative Pressures During Vacuum-Assisted Closure Therapy

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1063-1067

  Mokhtari, Arash ^a   Petzina, Rainer ^a   Gustafsson, Lotta ^a   Sjögren, Johan ^a   Malmsjö, Malin ^a   Ingemansson, Richard ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVICE; MEDIASTINITIS; NEGATIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL SCIENCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE; TRACTION THERAPY; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BONE WIRES; MEDIASTINITIS; PRESSURE; STERNUM; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SUS SCROFA; TRACTION; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; VACUUM;

EID: 33747330864     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.04.085     Document Type: Article

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