Factors influencing the development of wound infection following free-flap reconstruction for intra-oral cancer

British Journal of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 556-560

  Cloke, D J ^a,b   Green, J E ^a   Khan, A L ^a   Hodgkinson, P D ^a   McLean, N R ^a  

^a ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Free flap reconstruction; Head and neck cancer; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; FUSIDIC ACID; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; TEICOPLANIN; TRIMETHOPRIM;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CANCER; OPERATION DURATION; OROPHARYNX CANCER; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEFUROXIME; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METRONIDAZOLE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH NEOPLASMS; PREMEDICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 4344623155     PISSN: 00071226     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjps.2004.04.006     Document Type: Article

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