Preoperative core needle biopsy as an independent risk factor for wound infection after breast surgery

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 745-750

  Witt, Armin ^a   Yavuz, Devrim ^a   Walchetseder, Christoph ^a   Strohmer, Heinz ^a   Kubista, Ernst ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION RISK; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MASTECTOMY; NEEDLE BIOPSY; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0037381804     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0029-7844(03)00044-9     Document Type: Article

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