What happens when autogenous bone drops out of the sterile field during orthopaedic trauma surgery

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 430-431

  Kang, Lana ^a   Mermel, Leonard A ^a,b,c   Trafton, Peter G ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Rhode Island Hospital   (Iceland)

^c RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE GRAFT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DISINFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; EQUIPMENT; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; BONE TRANSPLANTATION; DECONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 52449090041     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0b013e31817614f1     Document Type: Article

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