Abstinence from Smoking Reduces Incisional Wound Infection: A Randomized, Controlled Trial

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 238, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 6-8

  Yang, George P ^a   Longaker, Michael T ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

CIGARETTE SMOKING; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCH BIOPSY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN INCISION; WOUND INFECTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SURGICAL INFECTION;

HUMANS; SMOKING; SMOKING CESSATION; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 85047692599     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SLA.0000074966.51219.eb     Document Type: Editorial

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