Factors associated with long-term complications after repair of mandibular fractures

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 427-430

  Furr, Andrea Marie ^a   Schweinfurth, John M ^a   May, Warren L ^a  

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

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Complications; Infection; Mandible fracture

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CHLORHEXIDINE GLUCONATE; CLINDAMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FACE INJURY; FEMALE; FISTULA; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBLE FRACTURE; MANDIBLE RECONSTRUCTION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PLATE FIXATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT DURATION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MANDIBULAR FRACTURES; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645512241     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.MLG.0000194844.87268.ED     Document Type: Review

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