Successful non operative management of late infrainguinal polytetrafluoroethylene vascular graft infection with antibiotics alone: A report of two cases

Panminerva Medica

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 128-131

  Wilkinson, J M ^a,b   Munro, E N ^a   Welsh, C L ^a   Coen, L D ^a  

^a NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b SHEFFIELD CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Infection; Vascular graft, PTFE

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; POLITEF;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0031157537     PISSN: 00310808     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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