Wound Infection after Elective Colorectal Resection

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 239, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 599-607

  Smith, Robert L ^a,c   Bohl, Jamie K ^b   McElearney, Shannon T ^a   Friel, Charles M ^a   Barclay, Margaret M ^a   Sawyer, Robert G ^a,c   Foley, Eugene F ^a,d   Burns, R Phillip ^d   Gadacz, Thomas R ^d   Polk Jr , Hiram C ^d   Kellum, John M ^d   Howard, Richard J ^d   Poole, Galen V ^d   White IV, Raleigh R ^d   Pruitt Jr , Basil A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CARCINOMA; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIVERTICULITIS; ENTERITIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; COLECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 11144357344     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000124292.21605.99     Document Type: Article

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