Risk factors for surgical-site infections in head and neck cancer surgery

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 74-80

  Lotfi, Carlos Jorge ^a   Cavalcanti, Rita de Cássia ^a   Silva, Adriana Maria Costa e ^a   Dias de Oliveira Latorre, Maria do Rosário ^a   de Cássia Braga Ribeiro, Karina ^a   Carvalho, André Lopes ^a   Kowalski, Luiz Paulo ^a  

^a A C CAMARGO CANCER CENTER   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BRAZIL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 37349106300     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2007.09.018     Document Type: Article

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