Antibiotic selection for the treatment of infectious complications of implant-based breast reconstruction

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 140-143

  Weichman, Katie E ^a   Levine, Steve M ^a   Wilson, Stelios C ^a   Choi, Mihye ^a   Karp, Nolan S ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

antibiotic; breast reconstruction; implant; infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BREAST AUGMENTATION; BREAST IMPLANT; DEVICE REMOVAL; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TEST; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TISSUE EXPANDER; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DRAINAGE; DRAINAGE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BREAST IMPLANTATION; BREAST IMPLANTS; DEVICE REMOVAL; DRAINAGE; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GENTAMICINS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TISSUE EXPANSION DEVICES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VANCOMYCIN;

EID: 84880569665     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: 15363708     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e3182590924     Document Type: Article

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