Cephalothin, cefoxitin, or metronidazole in elective colonic surgery?
- 1 November 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Diseases of the Colon & Rectum
- Vol. 25 (8) , 783-786
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02553311
Abstract
A randomized controlled trail aimed at comparing the individual efficacy of cephalothin, cefoxitin and metronidazole in the prevention of postoperative wound infection was performed among 74 colorectal surgical patients. Of 28 patiens on cephalothin, 7 (25%) developed a postoperative infection, but among 23 patients in each of the other 2 groups, only 1 (4%) in each group became infected. These results confirm the primary importance of anaerobes in the causation of postoperative sepsis after colorectal surgery.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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