Risk factors for wound infection in head and neck cancer surgery: A prospective study

Head and Neck

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 447-455

  Penel, Nicolas ^a   Lefebvre, Daniéle ^a   Fournier, Charles ^a   Sarini, Jèrome ^a   Kara, Ahmed ^a   Lefebvre, Jean Louis ^a  

^a Oscar Lambret Comprehensive Cancer Center   (France)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Head and neck cancer; Nosocomial infection; Oncologic surgery; Wound infections

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CLINDAMYCIN; NETILMICIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOPHARYNX CANCER; LARYNX CANCER; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRACHEOSTOMY; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LARYNGECTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRACHEOSTOMY;

EID: 0035019932     PISSN: 10433074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hed.1058     Document Type: Article

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