Retained Surgical Drains in Orthopedics: Two Case Reports and a Review of the Literature

Though a relatively rare event, retained surgical drains are preventable and can lead to significant consequences. Two case reports from our institution are discussed as examples for the challenging management of this problem as well as an overview of techniques for the prevention and removal of ret...

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Autores principales: Cox, John S., Friess, Darin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5414493/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28503334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8194571
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spelling pubmed-54144932017-05-14 Retained Surgical Drains in Orthopedics: Two Case Reports and a Review of the Literature Cox, John S. Friess, Darin Case Rep Orthop Case Report Though a relatively rare event, retained surgical drains are preventable and can lead to significant consequences. Two case reports from our institution are discussed as examples for the challenging management of this problem as well as an overview of techniques for the prevention and removal of retained drains based on the current literature. Hindawi 2017 2017-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5414493/ /pubmed/28503334 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/8194571 Text en Copyright © 2017 John S. Cox and Darin Friess. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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