Incidence of Sternal Wound Infection After Reexploration in the Intensive Care Unit and the Use of Local Gentamycin Diana Reser, MD, Hector Rodriguez.

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Incidence of Sternal Wound Infection After Reexploration in the Intensive Care Unit and the Use of Local Gentamycin Diana Reser, MD, Hector Rodriguez Cetina Biefer, MD, André Plass, MD, Christian Ruef, MD, Burkhardt Seifert, PhD, Dominique Bettex, MD, Patric Biaggi, MD, Volkmar Falk, MD, Sacha P. Salzberg, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 94, Issue 6, Pages 2033-2037 (December 2012) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.07.044 Copyright © 2012 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions

Fig 1 Sternal wound infection (SWI) incidence is shown in the reexplored and non-reexplored group (with SWI, dark bar; without SWI, gray bar; p > 0.9). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2012 94, 2033-2037DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.07.044) Copyright © 2012 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions