Acute mediastinitis: Multidetector computed tomography findings following cardiac surgery;Mediastinite aguda: Aspectos de imagem pós-cirurgias cardíacas na tomografia computadorizada de multidetectores

Radiologia Brasileira

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 269-273

  De Macedo, Clarissa Aguiar ^a,b   Baena, Marcos Eduardo Da Silva ^a   Uezumi, Kiyomi Kato ^a   De Castro, Cláudio Campi ^a   Lucarelli, Cláudio Luiz ^a   Cerri, Giovanni Guido ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Universidade de São Paulo ^*  (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acute mediastinitis; Mediastinitis; Postoperative infection

Indexed keywords

EID: 51849138249     PISSN: 01003984     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0100-39842008000400014     Document Type: Review

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