Local antibiotics: Panacea for long term skeletal traction

Injury

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 199-202

  Nigam, Vishal ^a,b   Jaiswal, Anuj ^a   Dhaon, B K ^a  

^a LOK NAYAK HOSPITAL   (India)

^b C 58/25 Sector 62 201303 ^*  (India)

Author keywords

Local antibiotic pin insertion

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON TRACTION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE NAILS; CEFAZOLIN; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; TIBIA; TRACTION;

EID: 10044290709     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2003.12.015     Document Type: Article

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