Use of antibiotic-impregnated polymethyl methacrylate in horses with open or infected fractures or joints: 19 Cases (1987-1995)

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association

Volumn 211, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 889-893

  Holcombe, Susan J ^a,d   Schneider, Robert K ^b   Bramlage, Lawrence R ^c   Embertson, Rolf M ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ROOD AND RIDDLE EQUINE HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BUTORPHANOL TARTRATE; CEFAZOLIN; CEFTIOFUR; COTRIMOXAZOLE; FLUNIXIN MEGLUMINE; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G POTASSIUM; PHENYLBUTAZONE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); TOBRAMYCIN SULFATE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BONE INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG IMPLANT; FRACTURE HEALING; HORSE; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; JOINT FRACTURE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FRACTURE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; SEPSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

AMIKACIN; ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CEFAZOLIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTIONS; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, OPEN; GENTAMICINS; HORSE DISEASES; HORSES; JOINT DISEASES; JOINTS; OSTEOMYELITIS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SYNOVITIS; TOBRAMYCIN;

ANIMALIA; EQUIDAE; EQUUS CABALLUS;

EID: 0030954765     PISSN: 00031488     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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