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Ann Thorac Surg 1996;61:1176
© 1996 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Invited Commentary

Invited Commentary

Department of Surgery, St. Luke Hospital, Bethlehem, PA 18015

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See also page 1172.

Over the past 15 years my colleagues and I have routinely used stainless (Parham) bands for sternal closure. Clinical results in more than 1,000 cases using such bands were previously reported. The switch to the stainless steel bands was made to avoid the complications that can be seen with the standard wire closure. Bands achieved a firm closure of the two sternal halves resulting in little or no motion of the sternal fracture. Stability of the sternal fracture . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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