Twelve hundred abscesses operatively drained: An antibiotic conundrum?

Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 794-800

  Zimmerman, Lisa Hall ^a   Tyburski, James G ^a   Stoffan, Alexander ^a   Baylor, Alfred E ^a   Dolman, Heather S ^a   Brinks, Lance M ^b   Obiakor, Harold ^a   Wilson, Robert F ^a  

^a DETROIT RECEIVING HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; NAFCILLIN; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BREAST; BREAST ABSCESS; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS CULTURE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEAD; HUMAN; INCISION; INGUINAL REGION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; LIMB; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NECK; OPERATING ROOM; PERINEUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOFT TISSUE ABSCESS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TRUNK;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 70349303970     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.06.020     Document Type: Article

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