The Risk of Hardware Infection in Deep Brain Stimulation Surgery Is Greater at Impulse Generator Replacement than at the Primary Procedure

Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 56-65

  Pepper, Joshua ^a   Zrinzo, Ludvic ^a   Mirza, Bilal ^a   Foltynie, Thomas ^a   Limousin, Patricia ^a   Hariz, Marwan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Deep brain stimulation; Dystonia; Infection; Parkinson's disease; Reoperation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; COMPUTER; DEVICE INFECTION; DEVICE THERAPY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PULSE GENERATOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BRAIN ABSCESS; CANDIDIASIS; COMORBIDITY; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ENCEPHALITIS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870289377     PISSN: 10116125     EISSN: 14230372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000343202     Document Type: Article

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