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Endoscopic Vacuum Therapy for the Treatment of Anastomotic Leakage after Total Gastrectomy with Esophagojejunostomy
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Treatment of mediastinitis with wound-vacuum without muscle flaps
Domenico Calcaterra1, Lisardo Garcia-Covarrubias, Marco Ricci
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Iowa, USA.
Journal of Cardiac Surgery
|September 11, 2009
Abstract:
Wound vacuum may represent a new solution to the treatment of patients with mediastinitis. We herein present case reports of two patients with very serious deep wound infections of the sternum (mediastinitis) treated with wound vacuum without muscle flaps. The implications of this new modality of treatment are discussed.