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A technical modification of median sternotomy to eliminate subxiphoid incisional hernias
Archives of Surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960)
|July 1, 1987
Abstract:
A modification of the standard median sternotomy incision that avoids division of the xiphoid process and the linea alba has been used for ten years, to our knowledge, without occurrence of an incisional hernia.

