Assessing and controlling wound infection

Clinics in Plastic Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-35

  Heggers, John P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; POVIDONE IODINE; RETINOL; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CROHN DISEASE; DECUBITUS; DEVICE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISINFECTION; EPITHELIZATION; FOOT ULCER; HEAD CANCER; HIDRADENITIS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LEG ULCER; NECK CANCER; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION INJURY; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SKIN GRAFT; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CROHN DISEASE; DIABETIC FOOT; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; PRESSURE ULCER; SKIN ULCER; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0037220365     PISSN: 00941298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0094-1298(02)00072-X     Document Type: Review

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