Use of Antibiotic-Impregnated Bone Cement Nail to Treat Septic Nonunion after Open Tibial Fracture

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 364-366

  Ohtsuka, Hiroshi ^a   Yokoyama, Kazuhiko ^a   Higashi, Kei ^a   Tsutsumi, Ataru ^a   Fukushima, Nobuaki ^a   Noumi, Takashi ^a   Itoman, Moritoshi ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BONE CEMENT; GENTAMICIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; SEPSIS; TIBIA FRACTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE NAILS; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURES, OPEN; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; TIBIAL FRACTURES;

EID: 0036191064     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200202000-00025     Document Type: Article

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