Systemic Antibiotics for Prophylaxis in Urologic Surgery: A Critical Review
- 1 June 1979
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Journal of Urology
- Vol. 121 (6), 695-699
- https://doi.org/10.1016/s0022-5347(17)56959-1
Abstract
All studies on the use of systemic antibiotics as prophylaxis to prevent infection in patients undergoing urologic procedures, as reported in the English literature during the last quarter of a century, are reviewed.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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