Management of the infected or exposed breast prosthesis: A single surgeon's 15-year experience with 69 patients

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1074-1084

  Spear, Scott L ^a   Seruya, Mitchel ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST ENDOPROSTHESIS; BREAST TUMOR; CANDIDIASIS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SALVAGE THERAPY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; STATISTICS; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BREAST IMPLANTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CANDIDIASIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SALVAGE THERAPY; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951069753     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181d17fff     Document Type: Article

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