Usefulness of white blood cell differential for early diagnosis of surgical wound infection following spinal instrumentation surgery

Spine

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1020-1025

  Takahashi, Jun ^a   Shono, Yasuhiro ^a   Hirabayashi, Hiroki ^a   Kamimura, Mikio ^b   Nakagawa, Hiroyuki ^b   Ebara, Sohei ^c   Kato, Hiroyuki ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Suwa Red Cross Hospital   (Japan)

^c Chigasaki Tokushukai Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early diagnosis; Surgical wound infection; White blood cell differential

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFAZOLIN; GALLIUM; PREALBUMIN; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PATIENT SELECTION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WOUND INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; BLOOD; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINE FUSION; SURGICAL INFECTION; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOPENIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPINAL FUSION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33646712969     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.brs.0000214895.67956.60     Document Type: Article

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