1. “Early” Delayed Sternal Closure Following Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Shelley Riphagen, Marilyn McDougall, Shane M. Tibby, MRCP, Nelson Alphonso, David Anderson, Conal Austin, Andrew Durward, Ian A. Murdoch 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 80, Issue 2, Pages (August 2005)
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2. Fig 1
Early postoperative mediastinal drain losses for patients in whom delayed sternal closure was initiated for inadequate hemostasis. Bars are mean and error bars are standard error of the mean.
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3. Fig 2
Incidence, timing, and outcome of patients undergoing delayed sternal closure. (DSC = delayed sternal closure; IQR = interquartile range; RACHS = risk adjustment in congenital heart surgery method.)
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