Perioperative prophylactic antibiotics in head and neck cancer surgery

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2014, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Alherabi, Ameen Z ^a   Margalani, Osama ^b   Dulguerov, Pavel ^c   Fergusson, Dean A ^d   Kilty, Shaun ^b   Ling, Francis ^b   Preston, Mark A ^e   Corsten, Martin ^b  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETRACTION NOTICE;

EID: 85048496253     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1469493X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD005394.pub2     Document Type: Article

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