Elastic Device Facilitating Delayed Primary Closure of Sternal Wound Infection

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1162-1165

  Price, Joel ^a   Rubens, Fraser ^a   Bell, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTOMER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; TREATMENT DURATION; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DEBRIDEMENT; ELASTOMERS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STERNUM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847264880     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.07.049     Document Type: Article

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