Surgical site infection among women discharged with a drain in situ after breast cancer surgery

World Journal of Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2293-2299

  Felippe, Wilza Andrade Barbosa ^a   Werneck, Guilherme Loureiro ^b   Santoro Lopes, Guilherme ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CÂNCER   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT NECROSIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; MASTECTOMY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36849076684     PISSN: 03642313     EISSN: 14322323     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00268-007-9248-3     Document Type: Article

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