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The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Vol 73, 267-268, Copyright © 1977 by The American Association for Thoracic Surgery and The Western Thoracic Surgical Association
F Robicsek, HK Daugherty and JW Cook
A method to prevent and treat sternum separation following open-heart
surgery is presented. The procedure consists of passing parasternal
continuous sutures placed alternatingly in front and behind the costal
cartilages and then including them in the usual parasternal sutures.
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The prevention and treatment of sternum separation following open-heart surgery
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