Simultaneous heart valve replacement and reconstruction of the radiation-damaged chest wall with a delayed vertical rectus abdominis myocutaneous flap

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 980-982

  Strecker, Thomas ^a   Feyrer, Richard ^a   Horch, Raymund E ^a   Weyand, Michael ^a   Kneser, Ulrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPROPYLENE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION INJURY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SKIN FIBROSIS; SKIN ULCER; STERNOTOMY; THORAX SURGERY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33748789088     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2006.05.063     Document Type: Article

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