Suction during orthopaedic surgery. How safe is the suction tip?

Acta Orthopaedica Belgica

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 531-533

  Givissis, Panagiotis ^a,b   Karataglis, Dimitrios ^a   Antonarakos, Petros ^a   Symeonidis, Panagiotis D ^a   Christodoulou, Anastasios ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Contamination; Suction tip

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUCTION; WOUND INFECTION;

EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUCTION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 51149106542     PISSN: 00016462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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