Cranial surgery without shaving: Practice and results in our hospital

Neurological Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 901-905

  Iwami, Ken Ichiro ^a   Takagi, Teruhide ^a   Arima, Toru ^a   Takayasu, Masakazu ^a  

^a Okazaki City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hair; Neurosurgery without shaving; Postoperative infection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN TUMOR; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRANIOTOMY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SHAVING; SKULL SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HAIR REMOVAL; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33748933079     PISSN: 03012603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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