Gunshot wounds to the head: The role of antibiotics

Infections in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 297-300

  Doherty, Patrick F ^a   Rabinowitz, Ronald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Craniocerebral injury; Gunshot wound; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANASTOMOSIS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BRAIN VENTRICULITIS; CAUSE OF DEATH; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; PENETRATING TRAUMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW;

EID: 3242714971     PISSN: 07496524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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