Infections in deep brain stimulation: Shaving versus not shaving
Open Access
- 1 January 2017
- journal article
- Published by Scientific Scholar in Surgical Neurology International
- Vol. 8 (1), 249
- https://doi.org/10.4103/sni.sni_172_17
Abstract
In our experience nonshaving of cranial hair in DBS surgery does not lead to more infections when compared to shaving. We have changed our protocol to nonshaving based on these findings.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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