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Bone wax as a risk factor for surgical-site infection following neurospinal surgery
Laurel Gibbs1, Anthony Kakis, Philip Weinstein
1Department of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, 94117, USA.
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
|April 28, 2004
Abstract:
Surgical-site infection occurred in 6 of 42 neurospinal cases in which bone wax was used and in 1 of 72 cases in which it was not used during a 3-month period (P < .01). Increased risk of infection should be considered when using bone wax as a hemostatic agent.
