Muscle flap reconstruction for the treatment of major sternal wound infections after cardiac surgery: A 10-year analysis

Scandinavian Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-24

  Castelló, José R ^a,b   Centella, Tomasa ^a   Garro, Lawrence ^a   Barros, Jesús ^a   Oliva, Enrique ^a   Sánchez Olaso, Alberto ^a   Epeldegui, Antonio ^a  

^a HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Mediastinitis; Muscle flaps; Sternal infection; Sternotomy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; PECTORALIS MAJOR MUSCLE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RECURRENT DISEASE; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; SURGICAL MORTALITY; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; STERNUM; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 6144286052     PISSN: 02844311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02844319950159587     Document Type: Article

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