Let's add three other studies

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 340, Issue 7756, 2010, Pages 1097-

  Vochteloo, Anne J H ^a   Pijls, Bart G ^a   Van Der Heide, Huub J L ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLLOW UP; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LETTER; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL STAPLING; SURGICAL WOUND; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION; META ANALYSIS; NOTE; PHYSIOLOGY; WOUND HEALING;

HUMANS; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; SURGICAL STAPLING; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 77953925483     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c2627     Document Type: Letter

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