The management and outcome of spinal implant infections: Contemporary retrospective cohort study

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 913-920

  Kowalski, Todd J ^a   Berbari, Elie F ^b   Huddleston, Paul M ^b   Steckelberg, James M ^b   Mandrekar, Jayawant N ^b   Osmon, Douglas R ^b  

^a GUNDERSEN LUTHERAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; CARBAPENEM; CLINDAMYCIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; MINOCYCLINE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SPINE SURGERY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33947355783     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/512194     Document Type: Article

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