A descriptive study of bacterial load of full-thickness surgical wounds in dermatologic surgery

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1014-1022

  Saleh, Karim ^a,c   Sonesson, Andreas ^a   Persson, Bertil ^a   Riesbeck, Kristian ^b   Schmidtchen, Artur ^a  

^a Department of Clinical Sciences ^*  (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUCLOXACILLIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN ULCER; SMOKING; SURGICAL INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL LOAD; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CHEEK; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FLOXACILLIN; FOREHEAD; HUMANS; KERATOSIS, ACTINIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SKIN ULCER; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80955179990     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2011.02040.x     Document Type: Article

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