Role of perioperative antibiotics in endoscopic skull base surgery

Laryngoscope

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1528-1532

  Brown, Seth M ^a,c   Anand, Vijay K ^a   Tabaee, Abtin ^b   Schwartz, Theodore H ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endoscopic skull base surgery; Perioperative care; Pituitary surgery; Postoperative infection; Prophylactic antibiotics; Skull base surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; GENTAMICIN; HEMOSTATIC AGENT; SEALANT; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID FISTULA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; DATA BASE; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS TUMOR; INFECTIOUS COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENINGIOMA; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKULL SURGERY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CEFAZOLIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; CLINDAMYCIN; CRANIOTOMY; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENDOSCOPY; GENTAMICINS; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE; SUBDURAL EFFUSION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 34548414104     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLG.0b013e3180caa177     Document Type: Article

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