An aggressive local approach to vascular graft infection

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 176, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 222-225

  Sladen, Joseph G ^a   Chen, Jerry C ^a   Reid, John S D ^a  

^a ST PAUL S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY RECONSTRUCTION; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFERENCE PAPER; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; GRAFT INFECTION; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MUSCLE GRAFT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SARTORIUS MUSCLE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

AGED; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMANS; MALE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032143465     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(98)00130-5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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