A prospective, randomized clinical trial comparing an antibiotic- impregnated bioabsorbable bone substitute with standard antibiotic-impregnated cement beads in the treatment of chronic osteomyelitis and infected nonunion

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 483-490

  McKee, Michael D ^a   Li Bland, Esther A ^a   Wild, Lisa M ^a   Schemitsch, Emil H ^a  

^a ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BONE CEMENT; CALCIUM SULFATE; CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; CLOXACILLIN; GATIFLOXACIN; LINEZOLID; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); SULFAMETHOXAZOLE; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BIODEGRADABLE IMPLANT; BONE GROWTH; BONE INFECTION; BONE PROSTHESIS; CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE HEALING; HEMATOGENOUS OSTEOMYELITIS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LONG BONE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; REOPERATION; SIDE EFFECT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNIVERSITY;

ABSORPTION; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BONE CEMENTS; BONE SUBSTITUTES; CHRONIC DISEASE; DRUG IMPLANTS; FEMALE; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOMYELITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOBRAMYCIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955209304     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0b013e3181df91d9     Document Type: Article

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