Incidence, depth, and severity of surgical site infections after neurosurgical interventions
- 27 November 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Acta Neurochirurgica
- Vol. 161 (1) , 17-24
Abstract
Today, there are only few reports on the incidence of surgical site infections (SSIs) in neurosurgery. The objective of this work was to determine the rate of SSI at a tertiary neurosurgical department for benchmarking purpose.Keywords
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