Host classification predicts infection after open fracture

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 433, Issue , 2005, Pages 205-211

  Bowen, Thomas R ^a   Widmaier, James C ^a,b  

^a GEISINGER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Orthopaedic Surgery ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GUSTILO CLASSIFICATION; HOST; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LIVER FAILURE; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALNUTRITION; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 16844376501     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000150345.51508.74     Document Type: Article

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