Management of donor-site syntheticmesh infection after tram flapbreast reconstruction

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Fitoussi, Alfred ^a   Laki, Fatima ^a,b   Coutureau, Benoit ^a   Falcou, Marie Christine ^a   Salmon, Remy ^b  

^a Department of Surgery ^*

^b INSTITUT CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERSILENE;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; DONOR SITE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCULOCUTANEOUS FLAP; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRANSPLANTATION;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MAMMAPLASTY; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL MESH; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 67649409048     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181a3f448     Document Type: Letter

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