Community-associated methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus-infected chronic scalp wound with exposed dura in a 10-year-old boy: Vacuum-assisted closure is a feasible option: Case report

Neurosurgery

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Subotic, Ulrike ^a   Kluwe, Wolfram ^b   Oesch, Valérie ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b Wolfram Kluwe   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Dura; GranuFoam Silver; MRSA; Pediatric; VAC; Vacuum assisted closure

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN PLUS THROMBIN; SILICONE; TITANIUM;

ACROCEPHALOSYNDACTYLY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHILD; CHRONIC SCALP WOUND; CHRONIC WOUND; DEVICE; DURA MATER; EMERGENCY WARD; FULL THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PATIENT; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; NEUROSURGERY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT INFECTION; REOPERATION; SCALP; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN ABSCESS; TISSUE EXPANSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND INFECTION;

CHILD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DURA MATER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; SCALP; STAPHYLOCOCCAL SKIN INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 79955025427     PISSN: 0148396X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1227/NEU.0b013e318210c7fb     Document Type: Article

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