Efficacy of primary wound cultures in long bone open extremity fractures: Are they of any value?

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 259-261

  Valenziano, Carl P ^a   Chattar Cora, Deowall ^a   O'Neill, Anne ^a   Hubli, Eric H ^a   Cudjoe, Ernest A ^a  

^a Department of Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Fracture; Infection; Primary culture

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AEROBIC CELL CULTURE; ANAEROBIC CELL CULTURE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION RISK; LONG BONE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPEN FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN FLORA; SURGICAL WOUND; TISSUE CULTURE; WOUND INFECTION;

BACTERIA; EXTREMITIES; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0036944153     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-001-0363-6     Document Type: Article

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