Prospective randomized trial of two wound management strategies for dirty abdominal wounds

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 233, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 409-413

  Cohn, Stephen M ^a   Giannotti, Giovanni ^a   Ong, Adrian W ^a   Esteban Varela, J ^a   Shatz, David V ^a   McKenney, Mark G ^a   Sleeman, Danny ^a   Ginzburg, Enrique ^a   Augenstein, Jeffrey S ^a   Byers, Patricia M ^a   Sands, Laurence R ^a   Hellinger, Michael D ^a   Namias, Nicholas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL INJURY; ADULT; AGED; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; DEATH; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM PERFORATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFLAMMATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL INJURIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; APPENDECTOMY; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 0035114838     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200103000-00016     Document Type: Article

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