Triclosan-coated sutures reduce wound infections after hepatobiliary surgery-a prospective non-randomized clinical pathway driven study

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 396, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 845-850

  Justinger, Christoph ^a   Schuld, Jochen ^a   Sperling, Jens ^a   Kollmar, Otto ^a   Richter, Sven ^a   Schilling, Martin Karl ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antiseptic sutures; Liver surgery; Wound infections

Indexed keywords

POLYDIOXANONE; POLYGLACTIN; TRICLOSAN;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ABDOMINAL WALL CLOSURE; ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERIAL COATING; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SKIN INCISION; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMEN; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYGLACTIN 910; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SUTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICLOSAN;

EID: 80052848166     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-011-0786-7     Document Type: Article

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