Prospective, randomized, double-blind study of prophylactic antibiotics in axillary lymph node dissection

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 176, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 239-243

  Bold, Richard J ^a   Mansfield, Paul F ^a   Berger, David H ^a   Pollock, Raphael E ^a   Singletary, S Eva ^a   Ames, Frederick C ^a   Balch, Charles M ^a   Hohn, David C ^a   Ross, Merrick I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFONICID; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; AXILLARY LYMPH NODE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG COST; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; AXILLA; CEFONICID; CEPHALOSPORINS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0032167894     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(98)00154-8     Document Type: Article

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