A case of sternal osteomyelitis caused by defective wound healing after surgery of gingival cancer

• Norihisa Ichimura,
• Noriyuki Yamamoto,
• Yusuke Urata,
• Shohei Ikutomi,
• Hideharu Hibi

Affiliations

Norihisa Ichimura

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan; Correspondence to: Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Nagoya University Hospital, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Japan.

Noriyuki Yamamoto

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Kariya Toyota General Hospital, Kariya, Japan

Yusuke Urata

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Shohei Ikutomi

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan

Hideharu Hibi

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan; Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan