Risk factors for wound infection after oral cancer surgery

Oral Oncology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-81

  Belusic Gobic, Margita ^a   Car, Marijan ^a   Juretic, Mirna ^a   Cerovic, Robert ^a   Gobic, David ^a   Golubovic, Vesna ^a  

^a KBC RIJEKA   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Fistula; Oral cancer; Risk factors; Surgery; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; FISTULA; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; NONHUMAN; OROPHARYNX CANCER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH TUBE; TRACHEOSTOMY; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OROPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33846477820     PISSN: 13688375     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2006.01.006     Document Type: Article

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