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1Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota.
Abstract:
High-risk sternotomy incisions represent a challenge at the time of wound closure. We present an alternate wound closure technique that can be used in high-risk sternotomy incisions and consists of a combination of space-obliterating sutures and negative pressure (suction using wound VAC) therapy.
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