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Surgical Endoscopy and Other Interventional Techniques

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1670-

  Carbonell, A M ^a   Kercher, K W ^b   Sing, R F ^b   Heniford, B T ^b  

^a Virginia Commonwealth   (United States)

^b CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BIOMATERIAL; CHLORHEXIDINE; QUINOLONE; SILVER;

ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ASEPSIS; BACTERIAL SURVIVAL; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; LETTER; NONHUMAN; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; PROSTHESIS MATERIAL; SKIN; SKIN INCISION; THERMAL INJURY; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ANIMALS; BIOCOMPATIBLE MATERIALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SURGICAL MESH;

EID: 33746792492     PISSN: 09302794     EISSN: 14322218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00464-005-0103-z     Document Type: Letter

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