The management of complicated sternal dehiscence open heart surgery

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 323-327

  Imren, Yildirim ^a   Selek, Hakan ^a   Zor, Hakan ^a   Bayram, Huseyin ^a   Ereren, Emrah ^a   Tasoglu, Irfan ^a   Sariguney, Yakup ^a  

^a Gazi Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; STAINLESS STEEL; TITANIUM;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHONDRITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAVAGE; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORTALITY; MUSCLE FLAP; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALVAGE THERAPY; SEPSIS; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WOUND; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WIRE FIXATION; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND HEALING; CLINICAL TRIAL; INSTRUMENTATION; KIRSCHNER WIRE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PLASTIC SURGERY; STERNUM; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BONE PLATES; BONE WIRES; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33846051754     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20061109     Document Type: Article

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