Can we trust intraoperative culture results in nonunions?

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 384-390

  Palmer, Michael P ^a   Altman, Daniel T ^b   Altman, Gregory T ^a,c   Sewecke, Jeffrey J ^a,d   Ehrlich, Garth D ^d,e   Hu, Fen Z ^d,e   Nistico, Laura ^e   Melton Kreft, Rachel ^e   Gause, Trent M ^f   Costerton, John W ^e  

^a ALLEGHENY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e ALLEGHENY SINGER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biofilm; fracture; Ibis; infection; molecular diagnostics; nonunion; PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IMPLANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LONG BONE; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; OPEN FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSEUDARTHROSIS; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SMOKING; SOFT TISSUE; SPECIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TISSUE SECTION; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BIOFILMS; DEVICE REMOVAL; FEMALE; FRACTURES, UNUNITED; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903318041     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: 15312291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0000000000000043     Document Type: Article

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