Low risk of perioperative infection without prophylactic antibiotics for transperineal prostate brachytherapy

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 681-683

  Wallner, Kent ^a,b   Roy, Jitendra ^a   Harrison, Louis ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b Memorial Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Brachytherapy; Carcinoma; Prostate

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CHLORAMBUCIL; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IODINE 125;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BRACHYTHERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG COST; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERINEUM; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CARCINOMA; SEPSIS; URINE RETENTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BRACHYTHERAPY; FEVER; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0030272207     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0360-3016(96)00296-9     Document Type: Article

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