Use of antibiotic cement rod to treat intramedullary infection after nailing: Preliminary study in 19 patients

Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 945-951

  Qiang, Zheng ^a   Jun, Pan Zhi ^a   Jie, Xu Jian ^b   Hang, Li ^a   Bing, Li Jian ^a   Cai, Li Fang ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Cixi Hospital Affiliated with Wenzhou Medical University   (China)

Author keywords

Antibiotic cement rod; Interlocking intramedullary nail; Intramedullary fixation; Intramedullary infection; Osteomyelitis; Tibia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BONE CEMENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; GENTAMICIN; MONOMER; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BONE INFECTION; BONE RADIOGRAPHY; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DEVICE REMOVAL; DISEASE DURATION; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MALE; OPEN FRACTURE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDARTHROSIS; REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE CEMENTS; BONE NAILS; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 35448944503     PISSN: 09368051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00402-007-0315-x     Document Type: Review

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