Treatment of the infected wound with exposed Silver-ring Dacron graft and delayed skin transplant covering
Although the incidence of prosthetic infection is low (1%-6%), the consequences (limb loss or death) are dramatic for a patient, with high mortality rate (25%-75%) and limb loss in 40%-75% of cases. In case of Szilagyi's grade III infection, standard procedure consists of the excision of prosth...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Serbian Medical Society
2005-01-01
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Series: | Srpski Arhiv za Celokupno Lekarstvo |
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Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0370-8179/2005/0370-81790502069N.pdf |