Occurrence of fever in the first postoperative week does not help to diagnose infection in clean orthopaedic surgery

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1257-1260

  Uçkay, Ilker ^a   Agostinho, Americo ^a   Stern, Richard ^a   Bernard, Louis ^b   Hoffmeyer, Pierre ^a   Wyssa, Blaise ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b University Hospitals of Tours   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIURIA; BODY TEMPERATURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMATOMA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SURGICAL PATIENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80555134773     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: 14325195     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-010-1128-z     Document Type: Conference Paper

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