A wound protector shields incision sites from bacterial invasion

Surgical Infections

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 501-503

  Horiuchi, Tetsuya ^a   Tanishima, Hiroyuki ^b   Tamagawa, Kouji ^b   Sakaguchi, Satoru ^b   Shono, Yoshiharu ^b   Tsubakihara, Hideaki ^b   Tabuse, Katsuyoshi ^b   Kinoshita, Yukiyasu ^c  

^a National Hospital Organizaton Minami Wakayama Medical Center   (Japan)

^b MINAMI OSAKA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BACTERIUM CULTURE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; EMERGENCY SURGERY; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HUMAN; INCISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERITONEAL CAVITY; PERITONEUM LAVAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMEAR; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL WOUND; SUTURE; WOUND CARE;

BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 78049271453     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2009.072     Document Type: Article

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