Treatment of isolated Type I open fractures: Is emergent operative debridement necessary?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 410, Issue , 2003, Pages 289-294

  Yang, Edward C ^a   Eisler, Jesse ^b  

^a MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN;

ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CELLULITIS; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; COMPLEX REGIONAL PAIN SYNDROME; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FAT EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE TREATMENT; GUNSHOT INJURY; HAND INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INTRAARTICULAR FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OPEN FRACTURE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0037729081     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000063795.32430.4c     Document Type: Article

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