Salvage of baclofen pump pocket infection with muscle flap [7]

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1661-1663

  Atiyeh, Bishara S ^a   Hayek, Shady N ^a   Skaff, Ghassan S ^a   Araj, Ali M ^a   Chamoun, Roukoz B ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACLOFEN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; COST CONTROL; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFUSION PUMP; LETTER; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MUSCLE FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUMP POCKET INFECTION; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SALVAGE THERAPY; SPASTICITY; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ASTROCYTOMA; BACLOFEN; CEREBRAL VENTRICLE NEOPLASMS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; INJECTIONS, SPINAL; MALE; MUSCLE RELAXANTS, CENTRAL; MUSCLE SPASTICITY; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 14944345938     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PRS.0000141485.83476.89     Document Type: Letter

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