Treatment of Mediastinitis: Early Modified Robicsek Closure and Pectoralis Major Advancement Flaps

Sternal wound complications after isolated coronary artery bypass grafting: Early and late mortality, morbidity, and cost of care

Floyd D. Loop, Bruce W. Lytle, Delos M. Cosgrove et al. · The Annals of Thoracic Surgery · 1990 · 743 citations · Full text

Medicine, Cardiology, Surgery +16

Infected Median Sternotomy Wound Successful Treatment by Muscle Flaps

M. J. Jurkiewicz, John Bostwick, T. Roderick Hester et al. · Annals of Surgery · 1980 · 393 citations

Medicine, Plastic Surgery, Surgery +17

Major Sternal Wound Infection after Open-Heart Surgery: A Multivariate Analysis of Risk Factors in 2,579 Consecutive Operative Procedures

Gianmaria Ottino, Ruggero De Paulis, Stefano Pansini et al. · The Annals of Thoracic Surgery · 1987 · 379 citations · Full text

Medicine, Perioperative Medicine, Surgery +15

Sternal and costochondral infections following open-heart surgery

Alfred T. Culliford, Joseph N. Cunningham, Robert H. Zeff et al. · Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 1976 · 358 citations

Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery, Surgery +12

The prevention and treatment of sternum separation following open-heart surgery

Francis Robicsek, Harry K. Daugherty, Joseph W. Cook · Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery · 1977 · 255 citations

Medicine, Perioperative Medicine, Surgery +10