The relationship between time to surgical débridement and incidence of infection after open high-energy lower extremity trauma

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 7-15

  Pollak, Andrew N ^a   Jones, Alan L ^b   Castillo, Renan C ^c   Bosse, Michael J ^c   MacKenzie, Ellen J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Barnett Tower   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; LEG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOMYELITIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE; TIME; WOUND INFECTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; INJURY; LEG; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; SOFT TISSUE INJURY;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; OSTEOMYELITIS; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; TIME FACTORS; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 73949101368     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.H.00984     Document Type: Article

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