Postoperative infections in interbody fusion for degenerative spinal disease

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 444, Issue , 2006, Pages 120-128

  Pappou, Ioannis P ^a   Papadopoulos, Elias C ^a   Sama, Andrew A ^a   Girardi, Federico P ^a   Cammisa, Frank P ^a  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SPINE DISEASE; SPINE FUSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; LUMBAR VERTEBRA; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL DISEASES; SPINAL FUSION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645979389     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.blo.0000203446.06028.b5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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