Is it necessary to shave the pubic and genital regions of patients undergoing endoscopic urological surgery?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 519-521

  Menéndez, Violeta ^a,b   Galán, Juan Antonio ^a   Elia, Matilde ^a   Collado, Argimiro ^a   Lloréns, Francisco ^a   Fernández, Carlos ^a   García López, Francisco ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL UNIVERSITARIO DE ELCHE   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; FEMALE; GENITAL SYSTEM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PELVIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PUBIS SYMPHYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE CULTURE; UROLOGIC EXAMINATION;

AMOXICILLIN-POTASSIUM CLAVULANATE COMBINATION; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CROSS INFECTION; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GENITALIA; HAIR; HAIR REMOVAL; HUMANS; MALE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINE; UROLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 2942525084     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502434     Document Type: Article

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