Managing extracavitary prosthetic vascular graft infections: A pathway to success

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 677-682

  Zetrenne, Eleonore ^a   Wirth, Garrett A ^a   McIntosh, Bryan C ^b   Evans, Gregory R D ^a   Narayan, Deepak ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF SAINT RAPHAEL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Graft; Infection; Management; Prosthesis; Treatment; Vascular

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; GENTAMICIN; MAFENIDE; POVIDONE IODINE;

ALGORITHM; BACTERIOLOGY; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; REVIEW; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMANS; MAFENIDE; POVIDONE-IODINE; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 33751308840     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000226928.10734.ae     Document Type: Review

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