Surgical outcomes of sternal rigid plate fixation from 2005 to 2016 using the American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database

Surgical outcomes of sternal rigid plate fixation from 2005 to 2016 using the American College of Surgeons-National Surgical Quality Improvement Program database

Background Sternal rigid plate fixation (RPF) has been adopted in recent years in high-risk cases to reduce complications associated with steel wire cerclage, the traditional approach to sternal closure. While sternal RPF has been associated with lower complication rates than wire cerclage, it has i...

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Main Authors: Bao Ngoc N. Tran, Austin D. Chen, Melisa D. Granoff, Anna Rose Johnson, Parisa Kamali, Dhruv Singhal, Bernard T. Lee, Eugene Y. Fukudome
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons 2019-07-01
Series:Archives of Plastic Surgery
Subjects:
Bone plates
Sternum
Surgery
Treatment outcome
Wound healing
Online Access:http://www.e-aps.org/upload/pdf/aps-2018-01102.pdf

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