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Presternal Muscle Padding Following Midline Sternotomy
Author(s) -
ROBICSEK FRANCIS,
HAMILTON D. ANTHONY
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8191.1989.tb00293.x
Subject(s) - sternum , medicine , median sternotomy , closure (psychology) , pectoralis major muscle , anatomy , surgery , economics , market economy
A bstract The authors present a modification to closure of the sternotomy incision. The procedure consists of detaching the pectoralis muscles on both sides of the edges of the sternum and uniting them presternally.