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Case Reports
. 2019 Feb 26:19:ic10.
eCollection 2019.

Combined Type Mediastinitis After Thyroidectomy Managed by Negative Pressure Wound Therapy With Instillation: A Case Report

Daiki Kitano  1 , Yoshitaka Kitamura  2 , Koichiro Yonezawa  3 , Wataru Nishio  2 , Shigemichi Iwae  3 , Minoru Nakahara  1 , Shunsuke Sakakibara  1   4
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Combined Type Mediastinitis After Thyroidectomy Managed by Negative Pressure Wound Therapy With Instillation: A Case Report

Daiki Kitano et al. Eplasty. .
No abstract available

Keywords: NPWTi; descending necrotizing mediastinitis; negative pressure wound therapy; poststernotomy mediastinitis; thyroidectomy.

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Figure 1
Debridement operative findings.
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Figure 2
Clinical course of negative pressure wound therapy with instillation.
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Figure 3
Wound closure.
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