Clinical Outcome After Poststernotomy Mediastinitis: Vacuum-Assisted Closure Versus Conventional Treatment
- 30 June 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier BV in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery
- Vol. 79 (6), 2049-2055
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.12.048
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