Kryptonite bone cement prevents pathologic sternal displacement

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 979-985

  Fedak, Paul W M ^a   Kolb, Eric ^c   Borsato, Garry ^b   Frohlich, Dean E C ^b   Kasatkin, Aleksey ^a   Narine, Kishan ^a   Akkarapaka, Naresh ^c   King, Kathryn M ^b  

^a LIBIN CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c Doctors Research Group Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE AGENT; BONE CEMENT; KRYPTONITE; MEDRONATE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CASTOR OIL; KRYPTONITE BONE CEMENT; POLYMER;

APPARATUS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BIOMECHANICS; BREATHING; CADAVER; CASE STUDY; CERCLAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CONTRAST; CONVALESCENCE; COUGHING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGING; INFECTION; MIGRATION; PERFUSION; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STERNOTOMY; STERNUM; STERNUM DISPLACEMENT; TEMPERATURE; WIRE FIXATION; WOUND CLOSURE; BONE WIRE; CONTROLLED STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURGERY; THORAX SURGERY;

BONE CEMENTS; BONE WIRES; CADAVER; CASTOR OIL; HUMANS; POLYMERS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STERNUM; THORACIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 77956163937     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.05.009     Document Type: Article

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