Primary sternal plating to prevent sternal wound complications after cardiac surgery: early experience and patterns of failure.
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publication date
- August 26, 2009
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- Adult
- Aged
- Bone Plates
- Bone Wires
- Cardiac Surgical Procedures
- Case-Control Studies
- Female
- Humans
- Length of Stay
- Male
- Mediastinitis
- Middle Aged
- Obesity
- Orthopedic Procedures
- Osteoporosis
- Prosthesis Design
- Prosthesis Failure
- Reoperation
- Risk Factors
- Sternotomy
- Surgical Wound Dehiscence
- Surgical Wound Infection
- Time Factors
- Titanium
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- Treatment Outcome