Risk factors associated with postcraniotomy meningitis

Neurosurgery

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 317-325

  Kourbeti, Irene S ^a,b   Jacobs, Anke V ^c   Koslow, Maxim ^d   Karabetsos, Dimitris ^a   Holzman, Robert S ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^d BELLEVUE HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniotomy; Meningitis; Neurosurgical infections

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGITIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGITIS, BACTERIAL; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33846975044     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/01.NEU.0000249266.26322.25     Document Type: Article

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