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Operative Exposures for Chest Trauma: The Median Sternotomy and Left Anterolateral Thoracotomy

  • Kapil A
  • Ferrada P
Springer International Publishing, (2020), 9-13
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-26871-8_2
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Abstract

This chapter will focus on two exposures to evaluate chest trauma and the indications to use a left anterolateral thoractomy vs. a median sternotomy. A patient with thoracic trauma requires logical and sequential evaluation; only about 20% of thoracic trauma requires...

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Kapil, A., & Ferrada, P. (2020). Operative Exposures for Chest Trauma: The Median Sternotomy and Left Anterolateral Thoracotomy. In Atlas of Trauma (pp. 9–13). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26871-8_2

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