Microbial contamination assessment of cryostored autogenous cranial bone flaps: Should bone biopsies or swabs be performed?

Acta Neurochirurgica

Volumn 155, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 367-371

  Bhaskar, Ivan P ^a   Inglis, Timothy J J ^b,c   Bowman, Jacintha ^b   Lee, Gabriel Y F ^a,c  

^a SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b PATHWEST LABORATORY MEDICINE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Contamination; Cranial bone flaps; Cryostorage; Propionibacterium acnes

Indexed keywords

AGAR; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE BIOPSY; BONE GRAFT; CRANIOTOMY; CRYOPRESERVATION; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; INOCULATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KLEBSIELLA; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STORAGE TEMPERATURE;

BACTERIAL LOAD; BIOPSY; BRAIN DISEASES; CRYOPRESERVATION; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; HUMANS; PROPIONIBACTERIUM ACNES; SKULL; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 84878403924     PISSN: 00016268     EISSN: 09420940     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00701-012-1517-8     Document Type: Article

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