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. 1982:358:167-71.
doi: 10.1007/BF01271775.

[Infected wounds]

[Article in German]
F W Gierhake

[Infected wounds]

[Article in German]
F W Gierhake. Langenbecks Arch Chir. 1982.

Abstract

Continuous prophylactic therapy with antibiotics has been used for a long time to try to prevent the step from bacterial contamination to clinical infection of surgical wounds. Earlier results of clinical trials were poor and side-effects common. For those used in recent years, however, the side-effects of pre- or perioperative prophylactic antibiotics have been minimal, although the therapeutical benefits have not yet been proven. This has also been the case with prophylactic infusion of gamma-globulin for prevention of postoperative wound infections.

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