The concept of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) after poststernotomy mediastinitis - A single center experience with 54 patients

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Volumn 4, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Ennker, Ina C ^a,b   Malkoc, Anita ^a   Pietrowski, Detlef ^a,c   Vogt, Peter M ^b   Ennker, Juergen ^a   Albert, Alexander ^a  

^a Herzzentrum Lahr/Baden   (Germany)

^b HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STERNUM; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 61349091150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17498090     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1749-8090-4-5     Document Type: Article

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