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Is there a relationship between wound infections and laceration closure times?

BACKGROUND: Lacerations account for a large number of ED visits. Is there a “golden period” beyond which lacerations should not be repaired primarily? What type of relationship exists between time of repair and wound infection rates? Is it linear or exponential? Currently, the influence of laceratio...

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Autores principales: Waseem, Muhammad, Lakdawala, Viraj, Patel, Rohit, Kapoor, Ramnath, Leber, Mark, Sun, Xuming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3414831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22835090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1865-1380-5-32