Infecciones neuroquirúrgicas

Enfermedades Infecciosas y Microbiologia Clinica

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 34-43

  Martínez, Esteban ^a   Rello, Jordi ^b   Coll, Pere ^a   Parés, Pere ^a   Verger, Guillem ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DE LA SANTA CREU I SANT PAU   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL DE SABADELL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

HUMAN; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; SPAIN; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BRAIN; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CATHETERIZATION; HEAD INJURY; MENINGITIS; MICROBIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL INFECTION;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BRAIN; CATHETERIZATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; HUMANS; MENINGITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VENTRICULOPERITONEAL SHUNT;

EID: 0029919780     PISSN: 0213005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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