Microbiology of post-operative wound infection in implant surgery
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The incidence of post-operative wound infection in orthopaedic surgery.
With the increase in the number of orthopaedic surgeons and the aggressive marketing by manufacturing companies, high technology orthopaedic surgery is being more frequently carried out in Malaysia. Post-operative sepsis complicating this type of surgery can have disastrous consequences. No data is available in this country on the incidence of post-operative infection in Orthopaedic Surgery. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nigerian Journal of Surgical Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1595-1103
DOI: 10.4314/njsr.v6i1-2.54787