Acute infections after fracture repair: Management with hardware in place

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 466, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 466-472

  Rightmire, Eric ^a   Zurakowski, David ^b   Vrahas, Mark ^c  

^a Plymouth Bay Orthopaedics   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE HEALING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ACUTE DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; INFECTION; INTERNAL FIXATOR; LAVAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REGISTER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INTERNAL FIXATORS; IRRIGATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RECURRENCE; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING;

EID: 41949137607     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-007-0053-y     Document Type: Article

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