Association between bacterial colonization on the tumor, bacterial translocation to the cervical lymph nodes and subsequent postoperative infection in patients with oral cancer

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 612-616

  Sakamoto, Haruo ^a   Sasaki, Jiro ^a   Nord, Carl Erik ^b  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Aerobic Gram negative rods; Antibiotic prophylaxis; Bacterial translocation; Cervical lymph nodes; Oral cancer surgery; Oral flora; Postoperative infection; Tumor culture

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; FEMALE; FREE SKIN GRAFT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KLEBSIELLA; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NECK DISSECTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ENTERIC BACTERIA; ENTEROBACTER; ENTEROCOCCUS; KLEBSIELLA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 0032722938     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.1999.tb00417.x     Document Type: Article

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