title: Corrigendum.
abstract: Vacuum-assisted closure system in treatment of postoperative mediastinitis, by Mohamed Ahmed Elawadi and Farouk Oueida, Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals December 2013 21: 708-712, DOI: 10.1177/0218492313479353 For the above paper the affiliation details for Mohamed Ahmed Elawadi were incomplete, they should have read: (1)Department of Cardiac Surgery, Saud Al-Babtain Cardiac Center, Dammam, Saudi Arabia (2)Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Banha Faculty of Medicine, Banha University, Egypt.