Prevention and management of surgical site infections in morbidly obese women

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 113, Issue 2 PART 1, 2009, Pages 411-415

  Walsh, Christine ^a,b,d   Scaife, Courtney ^c   Hopf, Harriet ^c  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Department of General Surgery ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL MASS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACTINOMYCES; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYSTERECTOMY; INFECTION RISK; MORBID OBESITY; OVARY TUMOR; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY; SUPPURATION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UTERUS MYOMA; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND IRRIGATION; COLLOID CARCINOMA; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SUCTION; UTERUS CANCER;

ADENOCARCINOMA, MUCINOUS; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LEIOMYOMATOSIS; OBESITY, MORBID; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; SUCTION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 60549105239     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3181945625     Document Type: Article

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