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Are prophylactic antibiotics necessary in elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy, regardless of patient risk?

PURPOSE: The average rate of surgical site infections (SSIs) for laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) has been reported in the literature to be between 0.4% and 6.3%. Also, these recent reviews have concluded that a prophylactic antibiotics for elective LCs in low-risk patients is not useful, but there...

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Autores principales: Kim, Hyung Jin, Kang, Sung Hwa, Roh, Young Hoon, Kim, Min Chan, Kim, Kwan Woo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Surgical Society 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5566750/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28835883
http://dx.doi.org/10.4174/astr.2017.93.2.76