Incisional surgical site infections after colorectal surgery: Time to appraise its true incidence

Acta Chirurgica Belgica

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 513-517

  Sergeant, G ^a   Buffet, W ^a   Fieuws, S ^b   De Gheldere, C ^a   Vanclooster, P ^a  

^a Department of General and Laparoscopic Surgery ^*  (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Colorectal surgery; Surgical wound infection

Indexed keywords

EID: 55849138432     PISSN: 00015458     EISSN: 25770160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00015458.2008.11680277     Document Type: Article

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