Electric cautery lowers the contamination threshold for infection of laparotomies

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 175, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 263-266

  Soballe, Peter W ^a   Nimbkar, Narayan V ^a   Hayward, Isaac ^a   Nielsen, Thor B ^a   Drucker, William R ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; CAUTERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMOSTASIS; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; LAPAROTOMY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0032054111     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(98)00020-8     Document Type: Article

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