Sternum

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison of short- and long-term outcomes after off-pump and on-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery with sternotomy. 
  • A novel bioresorbable film reduces postoperative adhesions after infant cardiac surgery. 
  • Acute gout presenting in the manubriosternal joint. 
  • An innovative approach for sternal closure. 
  • Anterior chest wall: frequency of anatomic variations in children. 
  • Benign pneumoperitoneum following median sternotomy incision. 
  • Comparison of omental and pectoralis flaps for poststernotomy mediastinitis. 
  • Comparison of omental and pectoralis flaps for poststernotomy mediastinitis. 
  • Comparison of port access to sternotomy in tricuspid or mitral/tricuspid operations. 
  • Does method of sternal repair influence long-term outcome of postoperative mediastinitis? 
  • Effect of an implantable gentamicin-collagen sponge on sternal wound infections following cardiac surgery: a randomized trial. 
  • Evaluation of the topical hemostatic efficacy and safety of TISSEEL VH S/D fibrin sealant compared with currently licensed TISSEEL VH in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a phase 3, randomized, double-blind clinical study. 
  • Evaluation of vacuum-assisted closure in the treatment of poststernotomy mediastinitis. 
  • Gpr126/Adgrg6 deletion in cartilage models idiopathic scoliosis and pectus excavatum in mice. 
  • Helical tomotherapy for bilateral breast cancer: Clinical experience. 
  • Imaging appearances of the sternum and sternoclavicular joints. 
  • Long-term follow-up after thymectomy for myasthenia gravis: thoracoscopic vs open. 
  • Long-term sequelae following median sternotomy wound infection and flap reconstruction. 
  • Mice lacking Bmp6 function. 
  • Midline lucency following median sternotomy. 
  • Minitransseptal versus left atrial approach to the mitral valve: a comparison of outcomes. 
  • Mitral surgery after prior cardiac operation: port-access versus sternotomy or thoracotomy. 
  • Mitral valve operation via Port Access versus median sternotomy. 
  • Mitral valve surgery and acute renal injury: port access versus median sternotomy. 
  • Problems of major chest wall reconstruction. 
  • Risk factors for 1-year mortality after postoperative mediastinitis. 
  • Risk factors for sternal wound and other infections in pediatric cardiac surgery patients. 
  • Silver-Impregnated Dressing Does Not Decrease Incidence of Surgical Site Infection After Adult Cardiac Surgery. 
  • Simple method for determining the need for sternotomy/manubriotomy with the anterior approach to the cervicothoracic junction. 
  • Split turnover pectoralis muscle flap for the treatment of sternal osteomyelitis. 
  • Standardized management improves outcomes after the Norwood procedure. 
  • Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia after median sternotomy: clinical utility of blood culture results in the identification of postoperative mediastinitis. 
  • Sternal metastasis as first presentation of a well-differentiated papillary thyroid carcinoma. 
  • Sternal plating for the treatment of sternal nonunion. 
  • Sternal talon offers a solution for secondary sternum osteosynthesis in patients with nonunion. 
  • Sternal wound dehiscence complicated by macromastia: report of two cases with discussion of literature. 
  • Subclavian vein to right atrial appendage bypass without sternotomy to maintain arteriovenous access in patients with complete central vein occlusion, a new approach. 
  • Successful ventricle to direct heart shunt placement as a salvage cerebrospinal fluid diversion technique. Case report. 
  • The association between duration of storage of transfused red blood cells and morbidity and mortality after reoperative cardiac surgery. 
  • The heart is under the lower third of the sternum. Implications for external cardiac massage. 
  • The names and faces of medicine. Angle of Louis. 
  • Use of both internal thoracic arteries in diabetic patients increases deep sternal wound infection. 
  • Use of the talon closure device in combination with a pectoralis turnover muscle flap for sternum nonunion. 
  • [Plastic surgery coverage of osteocutaneous defects of the sternum area with the vertical and transversal rectus abdominis muscle (VRAM/TRAM) flap]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Cunningham, Coleen Kathryn, Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology
  • Hogan, Brigid L. M., George Barth Geller Professor, Cell Biology