Negative pressure wound therapy for the treatment of infected wounds with exposed knee joint after patellar fracture

Orthopedics

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Lee, Sang Yang ^a   Niikura, Takahiro ^a   Miwa, Masahiko ^a   Sakai, Yoshitada ^a   Oe, Keisuke ^a   Fukazawa, Takahiro ^a   Kawakami, Yohei ^a   Kurosaka, Masahiro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; TEICOPLANIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; JOINT MOBILIZATION; JOINT SWELLING; KNEE FUNCTION; KNEE PAIN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; OPEN REDUCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATELLA FRACTURE; PUS; RANGE OF MOTION; SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL INFECTION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TISSUE NECROSIS; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING; FRACTURE; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATELLA; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; PATELLA; SOFT TISSUE INJURIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 79958148404     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20110427-27     Document Type: Article

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