Is Bonewax Safe and Does It Help?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1002-1006

  Prziborowski, Jörg ^a   Hartrumpf, Martin ^a   Stock, Ulrich A ^a   Kuehnel, Ralf U ^a   Albes, Johannes M ^a  

^a Heart Center Brandenburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE WAX; FRESH FROZEN PLASMA; THROMBOCYTE CONCENTRATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; WOUND HEALING IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; MALE; PALMITATES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOTOMY; WAXES;

EID: 39349104172     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.10.036     Document Type: Article

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