Chronic encapsulated mediastinal abscess presenting with remote cutaneous fistulization 12 years after redo aortic valve replacement for prosthetic valve endocarditis

Chronic encapsulated mediastinal abscess is an unusual complication of previous open heart surgery. We report on the case of a 79 year old male who presented with epigastric fistulization of an encapsulated anterior mediastinal abscess 12 years after a redo aortic valve replacement for prosthetic va...

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Autores principales: Kaul, Pankaj, Qadri, Syed SA, Riaz, Mohd
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16930485
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-1-22

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16930485
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-1-22

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