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Successful three-year outcome in a patient with allogenous sternal bone graft in the treatment of massive post-sternotomy defects

INTRODUCTION: Deep sternal wound infection is a life-threatening complication of longitudinal median sternotomy with extensive loss of sternal bone tissue and adjacent ribs. Wound dehiscence cases with no loss of bone tissue can be resolved via osteosynthesis using titanium plates. Unfortunately, th...

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Autores principales: Kaláb, Martin, Karkoška, Jan, Kamínek, Milan, Šantavý, Petr
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4336405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25557087
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2014.12.027