Clinical significance of positive cranial bone flap cultures and associated risk of surgical site infection after craniotomies or craniectomies Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 114, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1746-1754

  Chiang, Hsiu Yin ^a,b   Steelman, Victoria M ^c   Pottinger, Jean M ^d   Schlueter, Annette J ^b   Diekema, Daniel J ^b,d   Greenlee, Jeremy D W ^b   Howard III, Matthew A ^b   Herwaldt, Loreen A ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA COLLEGE OF NURSING   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial bone flap; Craniotomy; Gliadel wafer; Infection; Positive culture; Skin antiseptics; Surgical site infection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASEPSIS; BACTERIUM CONTAMINATION; BONE GRAFT; CHILD; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRANIAL BONE FLAP CULTURE; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; CRANIOTOMY; DATA EXTRACTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENDER; GLIADEL WAFER IMPLANT; HAND WASHING; HUMAN; IMPLANT; INFANT; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL SITE INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

BONE TRANSPLANTATION; CRANIOTOMY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SURGICAL FLAPS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 79958001231     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2011.1.JNS10782     Document Type: Article

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