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Infectious Complications After Reimplantation of Bone Flaps in Patients Who Underwent Decompressive Craniectomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Sebastian Schulz-Stübner ,
Rolf Rossaint ,
Markus Dettenkofer  and
Ruth Thiex
Sebastian Schulz-Stübner*
Affiliation:
Beratungszentrum für Hygiene, Aachen, Germany
Rolf Rossaint
Affiliation:
Freiburg, the Klinik für Anästhesiologie am Universitätsklinikum der Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Markus Dettenkofer
Affiliation:
Institut für Umweltmedizin und Krankenhaushygiene der Albert-Ludwigs-, Universität Freiburg, Aachen, Germany
Ruth Thiex
Affiliation:
Neurochirurgische Klinik, Universitätsklinikum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
*
Beratungszentrum für Hygiene, Stühlinger Str. 21, 79106 Freiburg im Breisgau 0761-2026780, Germany ([email protected])
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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 105 - 106
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2009

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