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Influence of Bilateral Skeletonized Harvesting on Occurrence of Deep Sternal Wound Infection in 1,000 Consecutive Patients Undergoing Bilateral Internal Thoracic Artery Grafting

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2003

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Dmitry Pevni, Rephael Mohr, Oren Lev-Run, Chaim Locer, Yosef Paz, Amir Kramer, Itzhak Shapira
Annals of Surgery

Abstract

Skeletonized BITA grafting carries an acceptable risk of deep sternal infection but is not recommended for repeat CABG or for patients with COPD.

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