Treatment of complex postoperative lumbosacral wounds in nonparalyzed patients

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1248-1254

  Wendt, James Robert ^a   Gardner, Vance O ^a   White, Jon I ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; GLUTEUS MAXIMUS MUSCLE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND DRAINAGE; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DEBRIDEMENT; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK; IRRIGATION; LOW BACK PAIN; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECROSIS; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; SACRUM; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SPINAL FUSION; SPINAL STENOSIS; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0031901419     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199804050-00012     Document Type: Article

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