Predictors of infection after 754 cranioplasty operations and the value of intraoperative cultures for cryopreserved bone flaps

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 766-770

  Morton, Ryan P ^a   Abecassis, I Josh ^a   Hanson, Josiah F ^a   Barber, Jason ^a   Nerva, John D ^a   Emerson, Samuel N ^a   Ene, Chibawanye I ^a   Chowdhary, Michelle M ^a   Levitt, Michael R ^a   Ko, Andrew L ^a   Dellit, Timothy H ^a   Chesnut, Randall M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranioplasty; Cryopreserved; Diagnostic and operative techniques; Infection; Intraoperative cultures; PEEK; Polyetheretherketone

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACITRACIN; POVIDONE IODINE;

ACTINOMYCETALES INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BONE GRAFT; BRAIN ABSCESS; BRAIN HEMATOMA; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TUMOR; CANCER SURGERY; CANDIDIASIS; CHILD; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOPLASTY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE INFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUSOBACTERIUM INFECTION; GROUP A STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTION; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS INFECTION; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; PROTEUS INFECTION; PSEUDOMONAS INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEIZURE; SERRATIA INFECTION; SHUNTING; SKIN FLORA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS MILLERI; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; INFANT; INFECTION; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SKULL; SURGERY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL; SURGICAL FLAPS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84987600877     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2015.8.JNS151390     Document Type: Article

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