Postoperative transverse sternal nonunion with a chest wall defect managed by a tibial locking plate and a Gore-Tex dual mesh membrane: a case report

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Tomaz Stupnik¹  Tomaz Malovrh²  Boris Podobnik³  Jurij Matija Kalisnik⁴ 

[1] Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia;Department of Traumatology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Zaloska cesta 7, 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia;Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia;Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia;Medical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia;Cardiac Surgery, Cardiovascular Center, Klinikum Nürnberg - Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany;

关键词: Sternal nonunion;    Plate fixation;    Transverse thoracosternotomy;    Clamshell incision;    Chest wall reconstruction;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13019-021-01730-5

来源: Springer

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