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Successful surgical treatment of traumatic sternal fracture with extensive mediastinal abscess and concomitant mitral valve endocarditis: a case report
BACKGROUND: A traumatic sternal fracture with extensive mediastinal abscess and concomitant native valve endocarditis is an extremely rare but catastrophic situation. CASE PRESENTATION: For 2 weeks, the co-infected patient was treated with aggressive debridement for the mediastinitis, change of vacu...
Autores principales: | Munakata, Hiroshi, Murakami, Yu, Mabuni, Katsuhito, Tsuchiya, Hiroyuki, Shinzato, Moriaki, Umemura, Takehiro, Kugai, Tadao |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4986367/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27528381 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-016-0507-y |
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